This is an analysis of the poem Inscription To Western Australia that begins with:
Nation of sun and sin,
Thy flowers and crimes are red, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcddcXcaaac
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100111 1101111 1110101 1010111 100101 111101 101101 10101101 101111 101101 110101 110101 01100100
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 198
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, thy are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word drink is repeated.
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