This is an analysis of the poem Sydney Exhibition Cantata that begins with:
Songs of morning, with your breath
Sing the darkness now to death;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcdbbee c eeffggbbhh i jjkkggllcc X c lmlmkhkH n bjbilhlH N dldlkhkH X e ggbXll N llbb X cXbcbcbfbf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,1,10,1,10,1,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,1,6,1,4,1,10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010011 1010101 10010101 1110101 101010110 1011111 1111111 1110111 1011111 1110101 1000110 1110101 10101001 1011101 1010101 1111111 1000111 1010101 1110110 1010101 10100101 1110 1011101 1111111 1011001 00100101 1011111 1011111 1111101 1110111 1010011 1110011 11 111 110100101 011101 01010101 010111 11011111 111101 11010001 010001 1110 01011101 010111 01010101 11001010 01010101 011101 01010101 010001 11010 11011101 0101001 01110101 110101 01110101 010101 01000101 010001 11 10 0101010101 11110100111 0111011101 01010100101 0111011111 1111111001 11010 1101110111 1101000101 1101110111 0101000000 11 10110 101100101101 1101001011 100100110101 1101101011 100100100101 1011011001 110101111101 1111011011
- Amount of stanzas: 20
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 133
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 94
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, by, in, of, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
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