This is an analysis of the poem Day Dawn that begins with:
All yesterday the thought of you was resting in my soul,
And when sleep wandered o'er the world that very thought she stole ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eedd ffgg gggg ffhhXddcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11010101110011 111101001110111 01110101111101 100111000110111 01010100010011 11011101010111 01010111000101 11010101110101 11011101110101 11110101010101 11110101111101 01010101111111 110101010101 011111010100101 010101010111101 01010101010001 10010101010111 01011101011101 01110100110001 01110100010100 01000111111101 11010101011101 10010100101101 11001111011101 01010101010111 01010101011111 11110011011101 01011101010011
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 236
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 58 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, of, and are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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