This is an analysis of the poem How The Melbourne Cup Was Won that begins with:
In the beams of a beautiful day,
Made soft by a breeze from the sea,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabcbcdedeXfXf gcgchihi jajafafa ekekdidi fafagcgc cdcddfdf jhjhhlhl
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 001001001 11101001 01001001 01101011 110010010 11101101 110010110 11101101 101011001 11001001 11101011 11011101 101111001 11101011 01011101 11001101 11011001 11101011 101001101 11011001 11101001 01001011 11001001 001101001 101001001 101001001 101101001 11101001 11011011 01001001 11101001 01001001 101011001 001011001 11101011 001001001 11111011 01001001 110001001 01011101 1010110101 11001001 11001011 11101001 11101001 11001001 11011001 101101001 11001001 001111011 01111001 110110101 1111011 101001101 01101101 101001001 001001101 11001001 001001001 11001001 01101011 101011001 001001001 01011001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 326
- Average number of words per stanza: 62
- Amount of lines: 64
- 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; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
The author used the same word but at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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