This is an analysis of the poem Sonnets On The Discovery Of Botany Bay By Captain Cook that begins with:
The First Attempt to Reach the Shore
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcbbcbdbdbdbee X X cfdcgdceXfedfd X d chccXdhdXddhdd X f gagaacaiicXjgj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,14,1,1,14,1,1,14,1,1,14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01010101 1001011111 1101000101 0101010101 1110110101 1101011101 1111010101 11011111001 1110010111 0101111111 1100010101 1001010101 0101100101 0101111111 11010100101 1 0100101110010 1011110101 0101110101 11110010111 1001101101 0111010101 1101010101 0101010111 0111010111 0101111000 1111110101 0111010101 11000110101 0101011101 010111110101 1 011110 0101110111 11010101001 1101010101 0101110101 011101010 1101010101 1101010100 0101001111 1100010100 0001110101 1101111101 01010100101 1101011101 1101011101 1 1001 1101010101 1101010111 0101010101 110111111 1100011111 0101001101 1101110101 1111011100 1101010101 0111011101 1101010101 010101010101 1101010101 1101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 235
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 73
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, to are repeated.
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