This is an analysis of the poem The Australian Sunrise that begins with:
The Morning Star paled slowly, the Cross hung low to the sea,
And down the shadowy reaches the tide came swirling free, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccbbddbbaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 01011100111001 11010010011101 01010100010101 10010100110001 1001010100101 01010010101101 10111010100111 111011101010111 1010010010010111 1010011101010101 0101010100101 0110110100101 10100111111101 1101010110001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 830
- Average number of words per stanza: 147
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 58 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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