This is an analysis of the poem Cape Byron that begins with:

Upon the orient utmost of the land,
Enfranchised of the world, alone, and free,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab caca deXe fafa Xdgd hihi heXX XjXjjXjX ed ed kbkg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,8,2,2,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 01010111001 0110010111 1101111101 00100010001 011100100100 0101011101 1101010111 0101010101 11000100101 0101010001 010010110000 01010010001 0101010101 0101011101 0101010101 010011101001 00100111000 0101010101 10010101010 01010100001 1111001101 010010101010 0100010001 01010101110 1111010101 0101010101 1101010100 01101000100 1001010111 0101011111 01001010100 0101011000 1001010101 01011101111 01010101001 01100001000 0101010101 0101011111 0101010001 01001000001 1101101001 0101010101 1101001011 1101110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 162
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 44
  • 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; of, in, this are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, this, of 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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  • summary of Cape Byron;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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