This is an analysis of the poem Australasia that begins with:
Celestial poesy! whose genial sway
Earth's furthest habitable shores obey; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeXfffXeeddggeehhiiggddbbXXaaggffdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 42,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 010101101 1101000101 1101011101 1101000101 1001000101 0111110101 0111011101 1111010111 11001010101 1110011100 1101010101 11110100101 1111010111 1111011001 1100011101 01010100001 1101110111 1101010101 1101110101 0101110011 1010111001 1101110111 1111110101 1001111101 1101111101 0101110101 1111010101 1101010101 11010011101 0101001101 1111010101 1101010001 110011101010 1111001101 1111010001 0111010101 1111000101 1011110111 1011110101 0111111101 1101010101 01010000101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1862
- Average number of words per stanza: 302
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; thy is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word when is repeated.
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- summary of Australasia;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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