This is an analysis of the poem Invocation To The Sun that begins with:
O Sun, toward which the earth's uneven face
Turns ever round, strong Emperor of Day,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccc deadffgb cXcf bhbgi ejcb XdcdXbkdggchb gdebjld bdkagecb cdch egchch ccleXbifchb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,8,4,5,4,13,7,8,4,6,11,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11011010101 1101110001 0111110011 1111111010 0101101001 110100101 1101000111 1101011101 1101110101 1001000101 11001001101 0101110001 111101 110101 1101010101 1001010101 1101110101 1100111101 1011110101 1001110111 1101011100 1101110001 1101011101 0101110101 1100111101 110101 1101 0101010101 1101000101 11010101001 1011010100 1101010111 1101010001 1100010111 1101010101 0101001111 1111110101 0100010101 0111010001 0111010111 11110011101 1001010101 1101110001 1101100100 1101000111 1110111101 1101010101 1101000101 1101001101 0011011100 1101011101 1101110111 1111110111 010101 1101 1101010101 0101010101 0101010101 0100110101 1111010101 0100101111 0101010101 1001111100 11010010001 1111111101 11101000101 1100110101 1101111110 1101010101 1111010111 1011111101 1111101111 1111001101 0101111101 1001110111
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 271
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 75
- 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, thou, on are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words thou, on are repeated.
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- summary of Invocation To The Sun;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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