This is an analysis of the poem In San Lorenzo that begins with:
Is thine hour come to wake, O slumbering Night?
Hath not the Dawn a message in thine ear?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbaccdeed
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 011010111001 1101010011 1101111111 10110101101 11011111001 011101101101 1111111111 1111011111 01010111101 0100011001 1111001111 010111011101 0101011101 1011110111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 667
- Average number of words per stanza: 131
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thee is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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