This is an analysis of the poem The Light Of The Sun that begins with:

THE light of the sun, the moon,
and the stars shines bright:...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcd eX afbgh eX eh bbXbh bb iXj kX efbbl fX mm aeX cbhe jlekddff angaohl nbhmX babbhXfi bebhbX hefpf keX pcl mX oknbmla aia nlmX fhlhnfXkX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,2,5,2,2,5,2,3,2,5,2,2,3,4,8,7,5,8,6,5,3,3,2,7,3,4,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0100101 10111 01000111 101001010101 1110100101010 11110101110101001 11110100111010 100101 01011010111 11010101010100 1010001101 11110101010 10100101101010 011101101010 111010110010 0011001110001 01010011010 10100001010110 001010101111 1101011101011 01110010000110 110101101110 110101 010010011011 101011101 11010110110 1111111010 101001000 111010010100101 100111100101 1001010 1101100001001001 111100110010 1111001101110 01101001100101 10110100111 11100100101001 1011011011 01101101 1101010111 1011111010001 101010010 000100010011 1100101101110 10111010101 11111111010 101000010010010010 1011111011010010 011101111101 111011010 10111001010101 1111110111 111001000100 1110100100 11101010 100111 111001001 10100101000111011 111011100110100 11011010111011 100101001 11101111 10110111110010110 10001101 0111011 00011110 000111100 0001001 111001010010 11110001 1111011 11100 01001011 10110110110 0100010001010 010100101101 110010010010100010 10110101 111100101101011 10101011111 1111111001001 101110001101 1010010010010010 1010001011100100010 11001010 111111010101 1110101 11111001 111001001101 111100110111 10101010 10110 101110 11011 10101001 0010001 11100100101010001 0010010010 100101 11111001 1110110110 11111100101001 1111001 1111110010111 11101100100101 11010010001 0101010101111 010010111010 1110001001 0101100101 0101111010010 111101010 1010011101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 27
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 191
  • Average number of words per stanza: 37
  • Amount of lines: 113
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; of, and, there, in, i, have, that, it, life, truth, joy, no are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words there, the, i, it, he are repeated.

    The author used the same words the, there at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase it connects the lines.

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