This is an analysis of the poem Sunrise that begins with:
O rising Sun, so fair and gay,
What are you bringing me, I pray,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaa bbb ccc bbb ddd aaa aaa eeeXddd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011111 11110111 01010101 11101101 01001101 01011101 01011111 01011101 11010101 01110101 00010101 11110101 11110101 11011101 11110101 11111111 11111111 10010111 11111101 11110111 11110101 11010111 11111111 110101011 01110101 01011101 01111101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 105
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; you, as, what, have are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, as, what, before 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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- summary of Sunrise;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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