This is an analysis of the poem An Aurora Borealis that begins with:
O STRANGE soft gleam, o ghostly dawn
That never brightens unto day; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd beXe eaea bfbf XgegXeded
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11111101 11010101 11111101 11110101 00111101 10111111 01011001 11011111 01010101 11010101 110110000 10110101 11011111 011010101 11001101 11010111 11111111 1101101111 01010101 10010111 11111110 111010011 10111110 11010001 111101001 11111101 11110101 01010001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 145
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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 used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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