This is an analysis of the poem Australia's Peril that begins with:
We must suffer, husband and father, we must suffer, daughter and son,
For the wrong we have taken part in and the wrong that we have seen done.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb aacc ddee ffaa bXgg hhccXccbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11101011011101011 10111101010111111 10101001010100111 11110101111111101 110100101001101 11100111101011011 111101011011101011 00100111100010011001 11110111011111 010010010101001101 1010011111101111010 11110101011001001 01001010110100111 1101110101101101 0100101011100111 10100111001011101 0111110101100101 1100101011011001000 1011101011100101 0010110011101011001 1011110010101111101 1011100010101110001 11101111111001111 101001001011110111 1101011001001101 0111101010101101101 1111011011101001 110010110101111011
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 296
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 73 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 14
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, we, have, of, her, or, who, wealth, that are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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