This is an analysis of the poem The Fury Of Sunrises that begins with:

Darkness
as black as your eyelid, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdefgchgfhaccacEicjkiElcaEcmEmXhnneciblJlXEcjckgedXaJn
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 56,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10 111111 10001 0101 010010 1101 11 11 01001 101 101011 1101 010 101011 1010110 01011 10001111 1010 011 010100111 010100101 01101010 01110110 1010 10011110 11101 011 1010 10110101 1111101 1010 11101 111110 01101 110 1100 10100 10101 0110010101 01011010 101010 101101 1001110 010101001 1010 01010 011110011 010100100 10101 1011011 1110100 1001 100101 010 101101 1101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1388
  • Average number of words per stanza: 231
  • Amount of lines: 56
  • Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; more, day are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, after are repeated.

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  • summary of The Fury Of Sunrises;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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