This is an analysis of the poem A Sweltering Day In Australia that begins with:
The Bombola faints in the hot Bowral tree,
Where fierce Mullengudgery's smothering fires ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXb XXXX XXXX XXaX cdcX dede dbdb bXbf gcgXc XfXf fXfXXfafa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01001001101 111000010010 10010010 11011101010 11000010001 101001001000 101001101100 1100100100 0100110100 101001001010 10100100100 11001011000 0101011100 11001011000 01001110001 1111110100 01001001001 01001001001 11101001001 11101111100 01001011001 01000011011 010010001111 101001001001 001001001001 01001001011 101010001001 001001110001 1100100101 11001001001 101001101001 101001101001 10010011011 1000100001 11001 1000100 101010001 10001111000 10010011 01000001100 11001101 100011011011 001010010 100010001111 001111101 10001100101 101001011 10001000100001 01101111
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 165
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 49
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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