This is an analysis of the poem Daybreak that begins with:
As blazes forth through clouds the morning sun,
So shines your soul, and I must veil my sight...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdXddc
- 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: 1101110101 1111111111 1001000101 1111011101 1111110111 0110110111 1111111101 0111110100 11010101010 1101110101 10111111110 1110011111 1111011101 10010101010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 608
- Average number of words per stanza: 121
- 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; and is repeated.
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