This is an analysis of the poem Before Dawn that begins with:
SWEET LIFE, if life were stronger,
Earth clear of years that wrong her,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaabaaab cXXdaaad eeefaaaf eeeghhhg cccifffi iiiXaaaf XXXbaaab eeegaaag XjjjeeeX fffkccck
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010 1100110 1111110 110111 0101010 1101010 0111110 111101 0100011 1101010 1101010 110111 1111110 1101110 1111110 111101 0111110 1111110 1101010 110101 0111010 1101110 1111010 1100101 1111010 1101110 1111110 010110 0111111 0111111 0111111 110111 0111111 0111110 0101110 011111 0101100 0101110 0111110 101101 0101110 1101010 0111110 111111 1111110 0111110 1001010 010101 1111010 1101100 1111000 111111 110110010 0111110 1111010 110111 1111110 0101110 1100010 111111 1101110 0110010 01001110 110111 1101100 1111010 1001010 100100 0101010 1111010 1111010 110101 1100100 1111110 1111110 110101 1111111 1111011 1111111 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 241
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 80
- 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, worth, one, you, to, till, between, it, of, him, all are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words love, and, to, between, of are repeated.
The author used the same words to, as 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 you, it, him are repeated).
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- summary of Before Dawn;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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