This is an analysis of the poem At The Dawning Of The Day that begins with:

By Ribble's gleaming river
The morning mists are grey,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababXcCB dedecccB fgfgdXdgXababccCB
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,17,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101010 010111 10111010 00100101 10100111 101101110 10101010 1010001 101001010 0011111 10101010 010101 10101110 101001010 00101010 1010001 1111011 1100101 100011111 1111101 10101010 1111100 1111010 1101101 11001010 010111 11111010 101101 01010010 101101110 10101010 1010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 253
  • Average number of words per stanza: 47
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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.

    The poet repeated the same word day at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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