This is an analysis of the poem O Radiance Of Life's Morning that begins with:

O Radiance of life's morning! O gold without alloy!
O love that lives through all the years! O full, O perfect joy!... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcc DeXe bbXDaeb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 11000110110111 11111100111011 01011100100111 11010101011101 11000110 010101 0101010 111111 1101010110101 1111010110011 11000110 110111 11111100 111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 148
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; o, of, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words o, the are 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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  • summary of O Radiance Of Life's Morning;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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