This is an analysis of the poem The Sun Rising that begins with:
Busy old fool, unruly Sun,
Why dost thou thus,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababacXcdXXX effeagagXX gdbXgbgbhh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10110101 1111 110111011 1 1011010101 10010111 111110100 1111010101 1101010100 1101110111 1101111010 1 11110011 1111 1101110001 1111110111 00111101 11011111 1011000111 0111011101 1111111101 1111110111 101111101 1010 1011110100 1101011100 111111001 01011001 1111111100 0101110101 1101111101 0111001111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 459
- Average number of words per stanza: 72
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thy is repeated.
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