This is an analysis of the poem White Dawn, That Tak'st The Heaven With Sweet Surprise that begins with:

White dawn, that tak'st the heaven with sweet surprise
of amorous artifice, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcXbdacefbbfeddbbgXhhcgcXfXfaaaaaafddf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 39,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110100101 0100100 11010010110 0110 01010100101 110101 1101011101 11010 1101111111 1101 01110100101 110101 1011010101 111101 001101 1101 1101010101 110101011101 01010010100 10 110101 1101 01110111010 0101010100 11010101010 1110 110001010101 110101 0101 1101010101 1101010111 110101 011101 1101 11110101101 1101010101 1111110001 011111 0101101010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1340
  • Average number of words per stanza: 229
  • Amount of lines: 39
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; and is repeated.

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