This is an analysis of the poem The Australian Emigrant that begins with:
How dazzling the sunbeams awoke on the spray,
When Australia first rose in the distance away,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeeeddff ffffXXgg hhccaXff aaffiijj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 110001001101 101011001001 11001101001 101001001001 11001010001 11011001011 11001101001 01011001001 111101011001 101001011001 01111001011 11011011011 111011011101 111011001001 11101110011 11101111001 11011001001 11001011001 11011011001 11011111001 111101111011 01011001001 111011001001 01011101011 11111001001 01101101101 11011001011 001001101001 01101011001 101011001011 01101011011 11101000101 11001101011 101101001001 11101001001 11101011001 11111011001 01101101101 11011100101 001101001001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 472
- Average number of words per stanza: 93
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and, d, had, we, our, of, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words as, for are repeated.
The author used the same word how at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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