This is an analysis of the poem The Future Of Australia that begins with:
Sing us the Land of the Southern Sea,
The land we have called our own;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBAB cdcd cece fgfg hchc aBAB ibib XhaX fbfb jbjb chch cjcj hjhX ibib hghg XeXeXjaja
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 110100101 0111111 11110110 0011111 110100101 0100111 110101101 1010111 0101101101 11000101 1010100101 011101 011101101 1101101 110011101 0011111 101010101 1011111 110100101 1010101 110100101 0111111 11110110 0011111 110111101 0010101 0100100101 1010101 11011100 00100111 010010001 00111110 011111001 10010111 0101100111 1010101 110100111 1111111 111101001 1011111 1110010101 1110101 110100101 1111111 111101101 110111 11010110001 1111101 101110111 1010101 00101000101 1010110 010101101 10100111 011110101 1100101 110100101 1100110 1110100101 1010100 10100001110 1010101 1110000101 1011101 10100111 1110100 1011100101 0010001
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 144
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 68
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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, our, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, there, she are 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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