This is an analysis of the poem Elegy On An Australian Schoolboy that begins with:
I would not curse your England, wise as slow,
Just as unjust in deed....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcbdb bebebbbb fbfbefeX ghghidic bjbjdjdj bbbbkaka llllddcd bmbmcbdb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111110111 110101 1101100111 010101 1101110100 110101 1111110001 110101 1111010101 110101 1101010101 010111 01110001111 111101 1111011111 110101 1011010101 010101 1010011111 110111 11110111001 111101 1111001101 01010 1101011111 011101 1101010101 110111 1101110101 010101 0111001111 110100 01001100111 0101001 1111010111 011111 1111110101 110101 1111000101 110101 1101110011 1111001 1011000101 111101 1111110011 011111 1111001111 010101 1110111111 010111 101111011 111101 1111011110 111101 1011011100 010111 1111110111 111111 1011110111 111111 1111110100 0111111 1111010101 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 276
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; you, not, her, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words you, that, the are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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