This is an analysis of the poem The Monster Diamond that begins with:

A TALE OF THE PENAL COLONY OF WEST AUSTRALIA.
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  • Rhyme scheme: a Xbccddeeccffeg eXhii hhXbggjjggffddhh kkllhhbbkkaddllmmddgghh mmhhkkiibb hhiXddggllhhhiiddddhhddbbmmdd ggdd kknn ggcc mmddhhcckk mmmggmmddhhbXllkm kkhhbbggdd ggbbddddiii ooppmXkkcc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,14,5,16,23,10,29,4,4,4,10,17,10,11,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 01001010001010 1101111110 0111011111 010101111 1101100101 0100111011 11010101111 01001001001 1101111111 1010101111 0111001000 10111101101 0010111101 1111100101 11110 1101 010111101 10100110101 0010100111 111011111 0100101101 1011101101 001001101110 11110010010 111011111 0100111011 10001101011 1011010101 1111101111 1100111101 1010011101 1011111001 110011101 1110101101 001011011011 1101101111 1111001101 1101011101 00101111101 0010110111 0100100101 0110101101 0101001011 11111111001 01011001001 101011011011 1110 101101 0100110111 110111101 1101000111 0101100101 101011101 110010101 1010100111 1110111101 110110111 0011101101 1101110101 1110100101 1011100111 1110111101 1011111111 10111100101 1100110101 1010110101 1110110011 1101111101 101010111 001110111 10100100101 011110111 0100100100 0111110101 1010101101 010110101 1010010101 1010110111 110110111 1100100101 1110101101 010011110 110101101 1010101111 1100111101 1100101111 10101110101 1010011111 1010101111 1100110101 0100100111 10110100111 11111111 0011110101 10000100101 00100110101 1011011101 011100101 1100100111 110010101 111100101 110100101 111011101 0010100101 110110101 1101110101 10011101001 111010101 0100100111 10100100101 1010100101 0111100111 1010100101 1101101101 110100111 111100101 11100111111 1111111101 00111101111 0110101010 11011101001 00111011011 10101101011 11100111111 1100100101 1011001101101 111110111101 10101110101 0111101001 1111100101 1110101111 0010101101 1011100110 111110111 0010101101 010100101 11110100101 1101100101 1100110101 1100101101 1111101110 001011101 1110100111 1011110111 1011111111 0011111111 1110110101 0110101101 10101001001 0111001001 1111110101 0100100111 10110100101 110111111 10100100111 010100101 011100111 1100111101 1010110111 0010101101 11110101101 0100110101 1110110101 11100101010 11100110101 10101110001 1010101101 101001101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 15
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 491
  • Average number of words per stanza: 95
  • Amount of lines: 169
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; and, he, ', of, he'd, his, in, they are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, they are repeated.

    The author used the same word then at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase alone connects the lines.

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  • summary of The Monster Diamond;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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