This is an analysis of the poem The Federal City that begins with:
OH! the folly, the waste, and the pity! Oh, the time that is flung behind!
They are seeking a site for a city, whose eyes shall be always blind,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb XXXb cccc aadd bbdd eeaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101001101010110101 11100110101110111 1111111011111101 11100110100100100 010010100010101 010110101010100 010100101100100 111001101010101001 1010010101100101 1011011101100101 10111110101100101 10101001010101011 111001101000101001 111110110101001011 10100101101100101 101101001011111001 1011010011001111001 1011011010101101101 1011010110001101001 11111001011101011 0100111010011101001 111101001001101011 11101011011101001 1110010010101001001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 288
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 71 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; for, city, whose, in, and, with, be, where, should, it, australia are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words with, by, where, and are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word there at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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