This is an analysis of the poem Sunday that begins with:
O day most calm, most bright
The fruit of this, the next world's bud, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcac dadaede fgfggfg ehehheh ijijXiX hhhkbhb flflcfc cXckkck mbmbXmX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111 01000111 100000101 11011001 01011111 01011111 111101 010111 11111111 10110011 01011011 01000111 10010111 110101 111101 01011111 11110111 10101101 11110111 11011101 011111 110101 1111011 01011101 11010100 110101110 01110101 1111110 011011 10010111 11000101 000101001 11110111 10110011 110011 011101 10010110 11110101 11100101 11100101 11010111 111111 0101010 11100001 001111010 01111001 11010101 111111010 100111 010011 11011110 100111101 10011001 11011011 110100111 111101 110101 11011111 11010111 11111101 10010101 111110101 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 241
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 63
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, his, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines day is repeated).
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- summary of Sunday;
- central theme;
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