This is an analysis of the poem Aboriginal Death Song that begins with:
Feet of the flying, and fierce
Tops of the sharp-headed spear,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd efef agag dddd bfbf cece gfgf chchXbgbg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001011 1001101 1101011 1111011 1011101 1100011 1001011 1001001 1011111 1111101 1001101 10010101 1101001 1101101 1001101 1001101 1101001 1011001 1001001 1111001 1101101 1011001 1101101 1101101 1011001 1101011 1001011 1001001 1101011 1101101 1011001 1001101 1001011 1011011 1001001 1011011 1001011 1001001 1101001 1011011
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 140
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, at, and are repeated.
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- summary of Aboriginal Death Song;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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