This is an analysis of the poem At The Sun-Rise In 1848 that begins with:
God said, Let there be light; and there was light.
Then heard we sounds as though the Earth did sing ... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbaaXccXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111011111 1111110101 1011010101 1111010111 1100010011 0111110101 1101110100 1011111100 0001010011 1101110100 1111111111 1011110111 1101111010 0001111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 652
- Average number of words per stanza: 126
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
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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