This is an analysis of the poem Queensland Opal that begins with:
Opal, little opal, with the red fire glancing,
Set my blood a-spinning, set my pulse a-stir,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXab cbcb ddddXadad
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010100011010 11101011101 1010100111110 100010110100 10101010111010 1011101011111010 1110111111110 010011011111010 10100110111010 10101110101 10101010101010 11111110101 1101010101010 10101010111 1010110001110 1010100010111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 215
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; set, my, let, them, you, and, of are repeated.
The author used the same word opal at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Queensland Opal;
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