This is an analysis of the poem Hymn Before Sun-Rise, In The Vale Of Chamouni that begins with:
Hast thou a charm to stay the morning-star
In his steep course? So long he seems to pause... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdebXcfgghidag hffijag bbcce Xfbcggbkfb jkkdXXieef lXdXdggbfbjdblj ffebfbXdjgflldbjbkbgigj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,7,5,10,10,15,23,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101010101 0011111101 1111011101 011100111 1100111101 1001110101 1100011101 1001110101 1101101100 1001111101 0011111101 1101000100 11110111011 11101001001 1100110101 1100010001 1111010100 111111110000 1011110011 1011111101 1010011001 0001010101 100100111010 0111110101 1101011101 1111010001 1011011101 1111011111 1111110001 11000010101 1100111101 1111011111 0100010111 1011011001 1101111101 1111010101 1111000101 11110001001 1111110101 1111011101 0111010111 110100111 11010101110 1111010001 1111110111 0101010101 1101010101 1101010111 1111100101 1001001110 1010110101 1111011101 1001010101 111100101010 0101111101 11011101010 01001110111 11010101010 1011011101 1111110101 1110111111 1111011101 10110011101 110101100101 1111010101 1101100101 1100110001 1111000100 1011110101 1111011101 1011010101 11010010101 0001011111 1101010101 1111110111 0101010011 11000110101 10010101001 0101111101 1101001001 11010100101 11010001010 110110101 1101111101 1001010101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 488
- Average number of words per stanza: 82
- Amount of lines: 85
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; awake, who, and, your, god, ye, of, rise, thou, tell are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words who, and, ye, thou are repeated.
The author used the same word ye at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines awake, dawn are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases god, rise connect the lines.
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