This is an analysis of the poem On The Rising Of The Sun that begins with:

Look, look, brave Sol doth peep up from beneath,
Shows us his golden face, doth on us breathe; ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaaaabbccbbdd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1111111001 1101011111 11011011010 11011001010 1101010101 1111011111 1111110101 0100011001 0101011101 1111111001 11010111010 11010100010 1100110101 1101100111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 618
  • Average number of words per stanza: 125
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; doth, us, it are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).

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