This is an analysis of the poem John Day: Xiii that begins with:
DAY was a full-blown flower in heaven, alive
With murmuring joy of bees and birds aswarm,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbaabbacddccd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 110111001001 01001011110 1001011111 0101110101 11001111101 10001010001 111101101001 1101000101 0101110101 1101110111 1101011101 110011101001 1101000111 11001011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 641
- Average number of words per stanza: 120
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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.
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