This is an analysis of the poem Prologue To Western Australia that begins with:
Nor gold, nor silver are the words set here,
Nor rich-wrought chasing on design of art; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcX cbcbdcdc ececfgfg chchijijXajajbibi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111010111 1111010101 1101001011 11010111101 1001010111 1101011101 0101110111 1111110100 0101110101 01110010101 0101110101 1110011001 11110010101 1101110101 0111110101 0111010101 0101111111 1111110101 0111100101010 1111010101 01001010011 11001110101 0111011101 0101011101 1111110101 0101010101 1111110011 0111011101 0101011101 01001010101 1111111111 1011110111 1110010101 0111011111 1101111111 1101001111 1001111111 1101110111 1111110001 0111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 356
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; nor, it, i, and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words nor, of, and are repeated.
The author used the same word it at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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