This is an analysis of the poem Dawn in Wartime that begins with:
Sunrise tumbling in like a surf,
A foam of petals, curling thousands, lightly crumbling...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXbXXXbbXcXcbcXac
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111000101 01010101010100 01001 100011011 01011010011 1011 0101110 1001 00110101010 1011110101 110110101110 11011000001 10110110 01100101 01011011110 01100 1000110010 100111010010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 657
- Average number of words per stanza: 113
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
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