This is an analysis of the poem Alarm Clocks that begins with:

When Dawn strides out to wake a dewy farm
Across green fields and yellow hills of hay... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabXa cdcdcd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1111010101 0111110101 01010011001 1101010101 1101011101 010011101001 111101010010 11010111001 1001010101 1101000101 1111110111 1101011101 1101010101 01001110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 309
  • Average number of words per stanza: 57
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • summary of Alarm Clocks;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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