This is an analysis of the poem The Dawn Of Darkness that begins with:

COME earth’s little children pit-pat from their burrows on the hill;
Hangs within the gloom its weary head the shining daffodil. ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeXcffggddcchh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111010110110101 101010101010101 001010111010101 10111010010100101 110011100010101 101000111000101 111011101010001 1010010101000101 101010001010001 111011111110101 10101110111010 1010101001000101 100010111110101 111010101110011 111011111010101 1000100101000101 001001101010111 111011100010001 101011111010111 101010101010101 101110101111101 101000111010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1425
  • Average number of words per stanza: 252
  • Amount of lines: 22
  • Average number of symbols per line: 64 (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, are repeated.

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