This is an analysis of the poem The Day Of Wrath / Dies Iræ that begins with:
Day of Satan's painful duty! Dies iræ! dies illa!
Earth shall vanish, hot and sooty; Solvet sæclum in favilla... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXaaaXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 55,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101011110 111011101010100 111011101101100 11101010101001100 10101100101001100 1010010101011000 1010101010101010 101010101100100 1011101010101010 1110111011001100 101010101100100 0110111010001000 1010111010101000 1010001001101000 101010101101000 1010101010101100 1110101010101000 1010101011001000 1111101011101100 1010101011001000 10011111011101100 111000101101000 1111111011001010 101110101011100 10101010100101 10101111111011 1110101011110101 1010101110110010 10011101110001010 1110011110101110 1011110110100 111000101011000 11101110101100 101110101000101 111010101010101 11111010100011 1110101011001000 1100101011001000 101010101011100 01101010101111 101010101010110 1010010011100101 111110100110101 001110101111100 10101010100110 1010101010001000 1010101010100100 1110101010111000 1010111010101100 1011101111001010 11101010110110 111010001000110 10010101011001100 111101101000101 1111011011011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 3175
- Average number of words per stanza: 504
- Amount of lines: 55
- Average number of symbols per line: 57 (very long strings)
- 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; me, my are repeated.
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