This is an analysis of the poem Marriage Morning that begins with:
Light, so low upon earth,
You send a flash to the sun.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabacded XXbdXede XcbXcdc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011 1101001 10010101 111001 1011011 1111001 1111001 110111 111001 1111001 1000101001 1110101 1111011 1111111 110001111 0011111 111101 10111010 111110111 1110111 1001111 100100100 1101010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 233
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; we, and, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word over is repeated.
The author used the same word light at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Marriage Morning;
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