This is an analysis of the poem Australia Vindex that begins with:
Who cometh from fields of the south
With raiment of weeping and woe,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd efef XXda gcgc hihi hjhj kiki didi lmlm lmlm ndnd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11001001 01001011 101001001 101101011 01101001 01001001 111001101 001001011 101011001 101011101 11001001 11001001 11001011 001001011 11011011 011001011 11011111 111001011 11101001 01001101 11011001 01101001 01001001 11011101 101001011 001001101 111001001 11101001 01001001 111001001 11011011 11111011 01001001 01101011 11101001 111101010 01111001 11001001 111011011 11101001 11101011 11011011 11111111 11011001 101111111 111111011 111101101 101111011
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 156
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, her, thy are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, her, she, a, thy are repeated.
The author used the same words she, because at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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