This is an analysis of the poem The Dawning that begins with:
Ah! what time wilt Thou come? when shall that cry,
'The bridegroom's coming,' fill the sky?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcddeeffXgcchddeeeiijjbbagkkllhhmmddjjkkcbaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 46,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111111 11110101 1000101 1111111 10110101 1111 110111110 100110110 111101010 01110 10110110 11100100 01000101 10110111 1111 01010111 11111101 11100110 010101110 10111010 11110101 1101 1111101 010101011 10110001 01011101 11111101 00010100 100100101 11011001 110101001 11111111 111110010 111101010 11111101 01110001 11110111 11001011 10111111 10100101 11111111 11010001 111111011 01100001 11111111 10010111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1561
- Average number of words per stanza: 289
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, my are repeated.
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