This is an analysis of the poem The Morning Quatrains that begins with:

THE cock has crow'd an hour ago,
'Tis time we now dull sleep forego; ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXbbbccddeeXXXXeeddfffXbbffggbbXdcXeehhiieeddgggXddjjXgkkgXeecckkaaddXgjjaaddcc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 80,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011111001 11111101 1010011100 11010111 11110101 11111001 110110101 01110101 11010101 11010101 10110001 101101001 11010100 11011100 110010101 11110001 01010111 11010101 01010101 01011111 10110101 01010101 11010101 01000100 01010101 11010101 11010101 01010101 01011101 11111101 10010101 10110101 111101100 11110101 11011101 10110100 01010101 10111101 11100111 11110101 10110101 11011111 110000101 11101001 11010101 10010101 100100101 01111001 11100101 11111100 11010011 11011101 11010001 01011001 01000101 11010111 11000101 11110001 01011101 01000100 01001101 01110001 11110001 11010101 01111101 10111101 11011111 01010101 01110101 01001101 01010101 110101001 01010101 11001101 11111101 11011111 11110101 01010101 11101101 10010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2880
  • Average number of words per stanza: 506
  • Amount of lines: 80
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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 words the, to are repeated.

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  • summary of The Morning Quatrains;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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