This is an analysis of the poem In Praise Of Dawn that begins with:
You can keep afternoon and its dwindling mysteries,
twilight with its seedy hauteur. You can have night...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXc aXdcef agdefX dbbbdX eXeXeg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110110100100 110010101111 001010110011 10110101011001 001011110100 11101010111 010101010101 10011010011 0100110110 1110010110 001010101011 1101011110100 10110010011010 10101010001010 1111011010 1101100100011 10101110110 11010110010101 01100011010010 1111101 01001011111 0100110101001110 001001001011010 101010010101010 101111001011101 1111110111 1110100010100 100110101011 11110101110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 279
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; its, of, could are repeated.
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- summary of In Praise Of Dawn;
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