This is an analysis of the poem Epode that begins with:
BEYOND the Night, down o'er the labouring East,
I see light's harbinger of day released:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddaaeeeebfeghhgbiibeffXhXXhXeeXjkkjahhajXejXaaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 53,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 010111001001 1111000101 0101100101 10110010101 01010111001 1111111111 1101110111 1011111101 0101010101 1111110111 10111110111 11010100111 111011001001 11110111011 1001010111 1111110100 1011101101011 100010010101 0101111111 11001010101 0101111111 1111010101 0111011111 1101010101 01110101101 1111010011 11011101001 1101110101 0101111110 1111111111 1111011101 0011110110 0111000101 1001011110 1111111111 1101110111 111000101 1101110101 1011111101 0101010001 1101111111 0111011101 0101011001 0111010111 1101000111 1111110111 100010010100 1011010011 1101110101 1011011111 11010110101 1101111111 1111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2429
- Average number of words per stanza: 459
- Amount of lines: 53
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; of, my, and, i, her, with, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words where, these are repeated.
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