This is an analysis of the poem A Coin Of Trajan In Australia that begins with:
Through what strange winding ways of circumstance,
Through what conspiracies of time and chance,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aababcc ddedeff cccccgg aadadbb ddXdXcc cchci ff ffffffX bbjbjff kXikhff ddXdgbb ddXdXgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,5,2,7,7,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111010101 1101000111 1111010011 011100100100 1111010001 1111010101 0011110001 1111110100 1011100100 0101011111 1111010100 1111010101 1001011111 1111110110 11011101001 1111010101 11110011101 11010111001 1101010101 10001100101 0101010001 1111010111 11001010101 11001110101 110100100011 1111010101 1111110111 1111010001 0011010101 1101110101 11111001001 0111010111 0101000101 0101010101 1111010101 1111000101 1101011101 1001000100 0101010001 1101010100 11101100101 01010100111 1101010011 1111010101 0110010101 01000010111 1101011111 0101010011 0111011100 0101010101 010000101 0100110001 1111010101 1101011111 11010101001 1111011101 0101010111 0101010110 1101010100 0001010111 1101111101 0101110011 0101010111 1111110111 010101010101 1001000101 0101111101 0101011101 0101001101 1101111111 0101110110 1101000100 1011001101 0101010110 1111000101 1101011101 0101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 276
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 81
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; what, of, thy, yet are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words through, , the are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase connects the lines.
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