This is an analysis of the poem At Dawn that begins with:
They come to my room at the break of the day,
With their faces all smiles and their minds full of play;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaa ccddee ffggee hhggii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11011101001 011011111101 11111111001 001001101001 11101011101 001001111101 11111111011 11111011011 10101001101 11111101001 11011101101 11001111011 11011011001 001001101101 111001111101 111101101001 111001011001 11101011011 111111011111 1010001101001 1110111111001 101011111011 111101111001 0110001001111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 297
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; their, of, and, they, my, i, his, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, he are repeated.
The author used the same word they at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ride at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of At Dawn;
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