This is an analysis of the poem The Sun that begins with:
O Sun! The world's essence and motivator you are
The organizer of the book of the world you are...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bb bb cX Xd dX Xb cX XX ee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101101100011 0101000100111 01000101001011 010001000100111 0100010000111 01100010100111 10100101001101 101010111001001 1101101001001 10100110110110 11011101010 011101101001 11010100100001000010 1101000100001101 110000100100101 01011011100 11010000101 110100110 10101011101 10100100101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 97
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (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; of, you, light are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, your, you are repeated.
The author used the same word the 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 are, you, wisdom, yours are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word you at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Sun;
- central theme;
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