This is an analysis of the poem Sunise In The Place De La Concorde that begins with:

Paris, August, 1865
I stand at the break of day ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: X abcdecfX bbgbhheii jieijiie bggbebeche ceheeihikkhhleel jhhjXjj hXihiibb dhdhbbbbbiib mhmhinin jkkjkgkgXfmbbfmlgbbgbceceacca
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,9,8,10,16,7,8,12,8,29,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101 1110101 001101 01001010 11110010010 110111 110010010 01101110 10110010 1010111 1110101 10101010 0101111 110101 10100101 00100111 1101001 0101101 1101110 0101001 10101111 10100101 10111010 10111110 010010010 10111001 010101 1101001 1101001 0101001 010101 10101101 0100101 1011101 1001001 1100111 11101011 10100111 11101011 11100101 1010111 1111001 0111011 00101001 1111011 0110111 11100101 0110101 110101 00101011 0111001 010011 1011001 1011101 10111001 1100101 111010010 010110010 001001001 11001011 001001100 010101 00100111 11011001 0010110 110101 1101111 1111010 11001010 101110 00101010 110101 101100 10100101 1111111 10100101 01011001 1010111 01100101 1100101 1110111 1101001 10110101 010101 11110101 011111001 10100101 100101 1011101 0011101 1110101 0100101 010111 111111 1011101 1101010 10100111 100111 00100101 111001010 1011101 0111001 00101010 101001001 1001001 010010010 0100101 10101010 110101 10111010 10111001 11100111 10111110 0101010 0010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 314
  • Average number of words per stanza: 57
  • Amount of lines: 115
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, her 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 queen is repeated).

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