This is an analysis of the poem The Break Of Day that begins with:
THE STARS are pale.
Old is the Night, his case is grievous, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXa bXb cXc dad
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111 100101010 0111 11010 0111011100 01010 1111 0101011100 0101 110101 011111001100 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 400
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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