This is an analysis of the poem Coogee that begins with:
Sing the song of wave-worn Coogee, Coogee in the distance white,
With its jags and points disrupted, gaps and fractures fringed with light;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffaagg ddddbbhh ddcciijj kkaaiillXaaffccbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1010111100101 0011101011101001 1010110100010101 101010100010101 11101010111111 101111101010111 10101010010011111 101110101000101 101010101011111 1010100101010101 101010101100101 100010110010101 111110101010101 10111011010101 101010101010101 1011111001011111 101010101010101 101011111010101 111110101011101 101011011010101 1011111001111111 111110101111101 1010111000101001 101010101110101 101010101111101 110111101110101 111111111011111 101110111111111 111010111111111 110011101011101 001111100010101 01111011011101 1010110101111101 001011101111100 1011011110100001 1001010101011101 10001011000101 11100111011100111 1011101010111010 1010101010101010 111011101111111 101100101011101 111110101110101 101010101010101 111010101010101 101110101001101 010110101010101 101010101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 624
- Average number of words per stanza: 114
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 64 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, you, we, that, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word come is repeated.
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- summary of Coogee;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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