This is an analysis of the poem The Dawn Dance that begins with:
What do you think I saw to-day when I arose at dawn?
Blue Wrens and Yellow-tails dancing on the lawn!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aAbb aaccXaaaA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11111101110111 11110110101 101110110001 11111101010101 1101011110011 11010101110100 11110110111101 01010101110101 101010110111 11010110111 101010110001 11110110101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 217
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i are repeated.
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