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

O gentle vision in the dawn:
My spirit over faint cool water glides, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABCCABCC dbebde abbaccfXcf gfgfcebcbXXABCCABCC
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,10,19,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010001 1101011101 1001 01 1111 1100110101 0101 01 1111110101 1111010101 1111 1111011101 111111 100101 1101111111 1101010101 1011011111 1000011101 1101011110 011101 1111 1101010001 1101010001 1101011101 1011011101 1001111101 0110110111 1011111101 01111101 011111 1001 1111 111101 1111010110 11010001 1101011101 1001 01 1111 1100110101 0101 01
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 260
  • Average number of words per stanza: 49
  • Amount of lines: 42
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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