This is an analysis of the poem Dawn that begins with:
At the dawning of the day,
On the road to Gunnedah,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXaXXbXbcdcdbebeXAcac
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010001 1010100 1010111 10100110 1011111 00110101 1011100 10111111 111101 11100101 1010100 10101101 1011101 00101101 101010 00100101 1010001 01100101 1110101 11100100
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 301
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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 used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word when is repeated.
The author used the same word at at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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