This is an analysis of the poem Bright As The Crimson Sun that begins with:

Bright as the crimson sun in the lap of dawn
rocks a radiant full moon in mother Amina's bosom. ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcaadcdXedXbc aaXefacXafXfXf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,14,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010100101 101001101010010 11111111001101 110010010 010101010 1101 0100100101 1101 10110011100 101111111 1101 010101 111100011 11111101010101 01011101 0101 1011011110 11101001 0100100 111101001 010101 10111101 11101101 01010111000100 1011101 011010100 0100010101110010101010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 369
  • Average number of words per stanza: 59
  • Amount of lines: 27
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; who is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, who are repeated.

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

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