This is an analysis of the poem The Earth To The Sun that begins with:
Oh Sun! oh glorious Sun!
The spell of winter binds me strong and dread... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba cddc efge ahha ebbX eiie geef adda daad jiij
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111001 0101011111 0011010001 1111001111 0101110 0101010111 1100101101 101111010110 110101 10011001111 1011101100 1110110101 1011001 110011110001 11010100011 1101100101 111101 101010100111 1101111111 0101010101 101101 010111100101 1101000011 1111010101 011100 01010101001 10110111001 0101010101 011101 1101011111 0101000111 1011001101 000101 1011011101 1111100101 1111110101 110111 0011010101 0111010111 1111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 147
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; and, life, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, he are repeated.
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