This is an analysis of the poem To Sydney that begins with:
NOT thine where marble-still and white
Old statues share the tempered light... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaabab aaacac dddddd cccaca eeXfef gXgggg hhhXhX ggXdgdXbbbebe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11110111 11110101 110010101 1001 01010101 0101 111111011 10010101 01010101 1101 01010101 0101 11010101 11111101 110101001 1001 01010101 0101 11010101 11110111 010011101 1101 01110111 1101 11011101 10101101 111101001 1111 11010101 1101 01010001 001010101 100101011 1101 11000111 1101 11111111 111101001 101110101 1101 11010111 1100 11110101 01010101 11010101 1101 11111101 0101 110111011 11010101 110010111 0101 10010111 0101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 179
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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