This is an analysis of the poem The Rising Of The Sun that begins with:

I did not expect to live in such an unusual moment.
When the God of thunders and of rocky heights,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXcadceXXfeaghhdXfbXXbgaiifXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010101011010010 10101010101 01011010 11010001 010001110111 10000101010 010100110101 010010010100 11101010011110 1110110100 100110110101010 10011101010001 1110111111111 1011110101010 010100011110 1000101101 10100101110 101111111101 1001110110110 011110010110101101010 01001010101001000010 00111001001001 100100101010001 01011110101110011 110 1011010101010110 101110 1101 101101101 110010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1406
  • Average number of words per stanza: 240
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, on, sign are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, nor are repeated.

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  • summary of The Rising Of The Sun;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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