This is an analysis of the poem Macaulay's New Zealander that begins with:
It little profits that, an idle man,
On this worn arch, in sight of wasted halls,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc dedeff ghghii ibibbb jbjbbb aiaiXX klkl ff aaaadd mXmeii ababgg dndnXX gegedd cbcbcc iXiao o iciXXp aeXebb bqiqcc fifiXb bpbpbXXrprbb qaqabX XXXadd lrlXbX nanaaX X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,4,2,6,6,6,6,6,6,5,1,6,6,6,6,12,6,6,6,6,1,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101011101 1011010101 1101010100 110110110111 01110100110 010101110010 1111001101 01010101110 1100111101 10010111010 10001001001 0101010110 0101011111 1111010111 0101010001 0101110111 1101111101 1100100101 0110001101 010101000100 110101101001 110111010100 01111100110 01010010001 1111010101 1101111101 010111100011 1101110101 01000111111 11111111111 1111010111 1101010101 1101001001 1110011101 11010011100 11011100100 1011010111 1101010111 11001010001 1101110101 0111010101 0101011101 1101011101 1101011111 0111010111 1110010001 1101100101 110111100 1101010101 11011101010 0101100101 010111010100 0011111111 0001010101 1011010101 110101011010 1101110101 01010101010 1111010111 0101011101 1111011101 1001011011 1101010101 1111101101 11001011111 1111110101 1101010011 1101111010 1101100101 01010101010 1111011111 1101110101 1111001100100 11010111110 110111011100 10010100010 11010101010 11000110010 11110011101 11111111000 1111100101 11110101010 1111010001 1111110101 11110101010 110001000100 11111101010 110101110000 01010101010 11011101010 11111100010 11010101010 11110101000 11010100010 11010101010 11110001010 11010101001 1101010101 1100011111 1001010001 110100010100 010100001100 11010101001 10010101010 11010101001 110101010010 11010001010 110111001010 11110101010 10111001010 11110100010 0101000010 1101011101 01010001000 11111001010 111101001 10011111110 0101010011 1101111001 1111010101 1101110011 1110101100 0111100001 1101100101 110011110110 01110110010 1111010001 11111101100 0001010100 110111001010 01010010101 0101111101 10011011111 11111111111 1101010001 10010101011 11110110110 01110101100 1001111101 1111011101 1010110101 1011111101 01110001010 11010101000 1001100101
- Amount of stanzas: 26
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 235
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 145
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, as, and, that, all, of, to, could, your, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, i, my, and, that, to, could are repeated.
The author used the same words a, i, could, for at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Macaulay's New Zealander;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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