This is an analysis of the poem The Sound Of The Sun that begins with:
It makes one all right, though you hadn't thought of it,
A sound like the sound of the sky on fire, like Armageddon, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXacXacXXXbXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 011111110100 0110100111011010 10110001001110 10110110000100010 0000111100101011 01010111010001010 01110010111 0110101101011 100010101011101 1110011110111 10110110110010 100100110001010010 10100010000010011 1111101101110 1101111101011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 922
- Average number of words per stanza: 161
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 61 (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; of, it are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase it connects the lines.
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- summary of The Sound Of The Sun;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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