This is an analysis of the poem Sunrise from the Mountains that begins with:

Hung thick with jets of burning gold, the sky
Crowns with its glorious dome the sleeping earth,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXacXdcefgdgXhXXcXabdehdadXfcaidcXcieX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 39,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101010101 10010010101 01010111100 01001000101 10011101010 01010101001 1011010101 000110010101 1001110101 0101010101 1101 0101010101 0101100101 1101111100 0101110101 1001010111 0101111101 01000101010 1101011111 1111010101 0111010111 1101111111 11011100101 0101010101 01010001001 11001110111 0101111101 11010101001 1111010111 1001011001 0111010001 01011101001 0101010101 1111010111 1101010101 0101010111 0100010111 0101010101 10010001010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1675
  • Average number of words per stanza: 306
  • Amount of lines: 39
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and, in, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.

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  • summary of Sunrise from the Mountains;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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