This is an analysis of the poem Quatrains To The Sun that begins with:

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A sunfort flourished in my sunless heart... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbcb X ddcd X ccXc X eecX a bbXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1 0101001101 01011001001 0110110101 0111010111 1 01110111101 1101011101 0111110100 1101111111 1 0111010101 01101010111 011111001001 11011110101 1 1001010001 010101001 1101010001 0101001100 1 0100110101 0011000111 1101010101 0111000100
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 95
  • Average number of words per stanza: 19
  • Amount of lines: 25
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; sun is repeated.

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