This is an analysis of the poem Why, When Our Sun Shines Clearest that begins with:
Why, when our sun shines clearest,
Why, when our hopes seen nearest,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaabbbbb cccdeeed Xccfgggf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111110 1111110 1111110 100101 1011010 1101010 1011110 110101 1011010 1001010 1001010 100101 1111111 1011011 1101111 100101 1011010 1001110 1101110 111101 1111110 1111110 1101010 111011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 238
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; why, when, our, us are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word why is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines us is repeated).
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