This is an analysis of the poem Day-Break And Six Bombers: 1942 that begins with:

I discern a few birds somewhere outside on grass,
dew drops dry-up in the sun rays...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbdeeX Xcfb ghfbhXeXbgaXd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,13,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101011111111 11110011 011001111 1011010 00001001000100 100110001 1000110 001101 010100101 0010101 0101001 10011 110000 1000010 11010001 1101 110111100010 10011001 1101111 11000 101001001 0011110110 1001 01011010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 183
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • summary of Day-Break And Six Bombers: 1942;
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  • history of its creation;
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