This is an analysis of the poem Dawn that begins with:

I have kissed the summer dawn. Before the palaces, nothing moved. The water lay dead. Battalions of shadows still kept the forest road.
I walked,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: a X X X X X a X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111010101010010101011010011110101 111011101111111100 110100010101000111101011101 1101011001101010110100101101010 11111100100111011 01011110100010010111010101111100100101011010 01011010010110001011101000110110110101010001 1101011
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 113
  • Average number of words per stanza: 21
  • Amount of lines: 8
  • Average number of symbols per line: 114 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 21
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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

    The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Dawn;
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