This is an analysis of the poem The Sydney International Exhibition that begins with:
Now, while Orion, flaming south, doth set
A shining foot on hills of wind and wet—... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdeffffffggXhiibbddccjjffiiffhhklhhffffhhddddllff mmnnbbooddddcchhffXb kkffXXppiiaakkffjjaakkgghhkkhhkkqqhhffbbffbbqqffffrrggffkkbbiissddffdd jjbbkkffedttccggbXkkoofXkkhh aajjmmffkkbbhhjjbbaajjffff ccddbbaaggffbbhhggppppffddffdXaaiibbccff kkffggaajjh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 54,20,70,28,26,40,49,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101010111 0101110111 1101010101 11010010101 11010110001 1001011001 0101011101 11010010101 1111010111 1111000101 1101011101 1101010101 1101011101 111110101 10011101001 1111001101 1101011100 0101010101 1101010101 1111000101 1101110111 11010011001 1101011101 1001010111 1111010001 0101010101 1101111101 0111001001 1101011111 1101010100 1101011111 1100010100101 11111101001 1101100001 0111001101 10001010101 1101000101 11110001110 11110110101 110101101 1101010011 0111010011 11111101101 0111010101 11110000101 1101010001 01100011101 0101010101 1101010101 01001000000 11010101110 01110000110 1111011101 1101001101 1111010111 01110001001 0111000101 1101110101 0111110101 0111010101 11011101001 01110010101 1101010101 1101100101 1101011001 0111010101 010011001001 110010100001 11001110101 11001011101 110101010010 0101000101 01011101010 1101010101 1101100101 0111010101 1101110101 1101110101 00011001001 01001010101 1001110111 1101000101 1111010101 0101110001 1101110101 0111000101 1101000111 11011101001 1001011101 0101010101 1001011101 1101000101 1101111001 0101011101 11110100101 0101010101 1101011101 1101010101 01001100101 1101010101 1101011101 01001000101 1101010101 1011010111 1101000101 1101010101 1101110001 1101110101 1111010101 0111100101 1101010111 0100010101 0101011101 1100010101 11010101010 01011101010 0101010101 1101000101 0101010101 0111000101 0101011001 1101001101 11010101001 0101010001 1111010100 11100100101 10011010101 110010101001 0111110101 1101010101 1011010101 11110100101 0101010101 0101010011 0111000101 1101010001 01001111111 1101000101 1101011101 0100010111 11010111001 11011101011 1101010101 0101000101 1111010111 1101000101 1101010101 1101010101 10010111101 1111010101 1001100111 1101001101 1101010101 01010010101 1101110101 1101010101 1101000101 011101010001 11010000101 0101110101 0101010101 01010101100 0101010101 1001000111 0101010101 01001000101 010100101001 0101110111 0101110101 1101010101 0111110111 11010010101 1100111101 1100010101 1111010111 1101010101 110101001011 100010101001 1101000101 1101010101 1111000101 1101010101 0001011101 1101010101 0101010101 1101010101 1111110101 1101110101 1101010101 1101011101 1101011101 1111111101 1101111101 0111011111 1101010111 0101110101 11110111010 1101000101 0101010101 0111010101 0101010101 0101010101 0111001001 1101011101 1100110101 1100011101 1111000011 0101010111 10110101001 1101010001 1101110101 1001110101 11111101001 0111010101 1101000101 11000110101 1101001111 0111010101 0111011101 11010010111 1101110101 0101000101 1101000101 0101110101 0101011101 0101011101 0101110111 11110100100 1111110111 11001011101 0101100101 0101110101 11000100111 11010100101 11001110101 01110001101 11010101010 01110101010 0101000101 01001010101 1101110111 01010111001 1101101101 1111010101 1101010101 1101010101 1111010001 0101010101 1101010101 0101010101 0111010101 01010011010 0101010001 0101110101 0100010111 0101010101 0101010101 1101010101 0100010000 0111100101 11010101010 0101111101 0101010101 1101010101 1101011101 1101010101 1011010101 0111010111 0111010101 1000110101 0101010101 0111010111 1001000101 1101010001 1111010111 11001010011 1101111101 01010010101 1111011101 0101110101 0101110111 1101100101 0101111101 0111010111 1001010101 1101110111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1577
- Average number of words per stanza: 284
- Amount of lines: 286
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; of, and, soon, in, these, what, this, its, here, their, from, to, thy are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, a, what, here, whose are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Sydney International Exhibition;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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