This is an analysis of the poem The Men Who Made Australia that begins with:
There'll be royal times in Sydney for the Cuff and Collar Push,
There’ll be lots of dreary drivel and clap-trap... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccccdeXedfdf ghghijij hkhkbibi klklmdmd dldlkkkk fhfhdcdc ededgfgf gegegjgj dXdXknkn
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1001010101011101 100101010111 001110101110101 11111111101 101010101010001 100101010001 101010101111101 10111010101 111010100010111 10100010111 1110101000100100 11101010101 1001000101010001 10101010101 1000100111010101 10111010111 101010110010101 11110110101 111100101110101 10101010101 101011101110101 11100111101 101110101010101 11111010111 101010101110101 10111010101 111001101010011 10111010101 101010110010111 10101010101 111110101110101 10111010101 101010111011101 11101010111 101110100010101 11100010101 101111101011101 00100110111 111011101110101 00111011101 111010110010101 10101010011 101010101011101 10111010001 101010101011101 10101011100 101110100010001 10111110101 111000101010101 11100010101 101110101110111 10101010101 101010101010101 11100110101 101000101010001 10100010101 101010100011111 11100011101 101110101010101 10101010111 101100111011101 10111011001 111010101010101 11111010111 1001010101011111 00111010101 1001010101010101 10100010101 1001100111010101 10100110111 101111101111001 11101110101 1011000101010101 00111010100 101110111010101 11101011001 001010111010111 10101011001 101010101011101 11101010001
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 493
- Average number of words per stanza: 94
- Amount of lines: 80
- Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, who, you, of, have, to, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words you, call, there are repeated.
The author used the same word call at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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