This is an analysis of the poem Our Sun that begins with:
This sun was mine and yours; we shared it.
Who's suffering behind the golden silk, who's dying? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcXdXeaf fghbgbXXfibeh aiec XXXda
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,13,4,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011111110 1100010101110 010100111110 110110110011 10 1010101110011 1011 0111010110111 01001011001111 0101 0110111100101 0100 10100110110 1001010001 10111101010110 10111100100010 10 11010101110 1100111101011 101 1110111101011 001 10101111 010110101001 1111010011 00111010101 01 01011110011010 1 1011110111010 1101 1111010001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 321
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; and, to, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words twenty, with are repeated.
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