This is an analysis of the poem Prayer At Sunrise that begins with:
O mighty, powerful, dark-dispelling sun,
Now thou art risen, and thy day begun.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcccccc aaddaaee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11010010101 1111011110 1101010111 1111010101 1101010001 1101111100011 1111011001 01001011011 1101111101 1111110111 1101000111 1101011101 1101110111 1101010101 1001110101 1011110111 1011111101 1100011101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 424
- Average number of words per stanza: 79
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thy, of, fill, with, light, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word fill is repeated.
The author used the same word o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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