This is an analysis of the poem The Late W. V. Wild, Esq. that begins with:

SAD FACES came round, and I dreamily said
“Though the harp of my country now slumbers,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXabbBbC dedefffc ghghiiic dididddc aXabbBbC
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011111001 1010110110 11011001101 1010010010 101111011001 101111001111 101001001001 111110010 01001011001 011110110 111011011001 1011110110 001001111111 1011011010001 11111111011 111110010 01111101001 1010010110 111101001001 1111110110 011101001 101011001001 11111001011 111111010 11011111001 0111111010 11011001001 1011110010 101111101011 101101111001 111000111001 1110110010 001001101111 1010110110 111111001101 1110010010 101111011001 101111001111 111011001101 111110010
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 367
  • Average number of words per stanza: 72
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; of, and, we, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, can are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word australia at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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