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

All morning high up on the eaves
Above your window ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbccXdecfdgX hhaiijXjdaceegg XdfeebbXhaaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,15,12,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011101 01110 01110 11000111 01011101 010101 11010101 11 1101 11011111 0111111 11111001 11001010 11000011 0101111 100101 11110111 11010111 010111 11111111 011101 11110111 0101 1111 011101010 11010101 1101010101 11010001 11000 1011 111 101100101 01110101 10100100010 110101 110111 110001 110101 11 110
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 390
  • Average number of words per stanza: 70
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, like 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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