This is an analysis of the poem For Australia that begins with:

Now, with the wars of the world begun, they'll listen to you and me,
Now while the frightened nations run to the arms of democracy, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcc ddaa cccc eebb ffgg gghh bbiiaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001001101100111 1101010100100100 1111001111001111 110001101011001 1001011010100111 1010101111010101 010001001011111100 1110011010010101 11111001011011101 10010111111001 1011010111100101 10101100100111 101001011011111 10110101110101 111111010010100 11110001110010100 111101011100101 10010110100101001 10110101110101 101011110110111 0110111111110111 11101011011010101 1101101011011111 01001101001100111 101001001101100 100101111100100 111101110100100 11111010011010100 1010011110100101 1001111101100101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 292
  • Average number of words per stanza: 53
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 68 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 12
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; now, of, and, that, we, us are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word now is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines do is repeated).

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