This is an analysis of the poem The Muse Of Australia that begins with:
Where the pines with the eagles are nestled in rifts,
And the torrent leaps down to the surges, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbcccD ababaaaD X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101001011001 1010110010 111001001001 101111010 11101101011 11111011001 01001101001 1010010010 11011101011 110010010 11011011011 1011110010 0111101001 01011111001 11001101001 1010010010 1010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 249
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, of, you, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is 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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