This is an analysis of the poem Xxviii: Now Dreary Dawns The Eastern Light that begins with:
ow dreary dawns the eastern light,
And fall of eve is drear,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaX bcbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 110101 11011111 111101 1000111 111101 011100101 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 121
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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