This is an analysis of the poem A Riverina Road that begins with:
Now while so many turn with love and longing
To wan lands lying in the grey North Sea, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab acac adXd Xefe gbgb hhXh didi XcXc afaf aeae fXfe cici XfXf ajaj abXb X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101110 1111000111 01111101010 110101 11010011110 1001010011 01111101110 110011 01011100100 1110110011 11011111000 110101 111100101100 1101010011 11110111010 111101 01110011110 1111110101 01011101010 100101 11110111010 1011010101 11011111100 100101 11010111110 1001010001 11010111110 111101 11110111110 1101110101 10010101110 100101 10110101010 10010001101 01010101110 110101 01011101110 1001100101 10011101110 110101 10010101010 100101010100 10110101010 100111 01111101010 10001011101 110101111110 1001001 11011111010 1101101101 10111111110 111111 10010111010 10111011101 10011001010 100111 11110101110 1111010111 01011101010 111101 10101
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 191
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 61
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; to, and, or, no are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
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