This is an analysis of the poem The Dawn that begins with:
What of the night, O Watcher on the Tower?
Is the Day dawning through the golden bars?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdXdbebeXfXfghghcfXfaeae cdcdebXbcbcbeeeeijij
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,20,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011101010 0011010101 101011101110 10101010101 10111101010 101010001101 110101001100 101010001101 00110101110 11010010101 10111100110 11101010101 111111101110 100110110001 1001101101110 100110001101 11110001110 10111000111 10110111010 1101011101 11110001110 10001010111 10111101100 11010010011 10111100010 101011010001 101010001010 10101000101 110101000010 10101000111 11010101010 10010110001 111101101010 10010111101 100010101000 1110110001 101101011010 00101001111 10011101010 1001111101 10101101011 10011001101 11101010101 10111010101 1010100101010 101010100101 1111011100010 001001000101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1145
- Average number of words per stanza: 207
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; as, in, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words banded, brotherhood are repeated.
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- summary of The Dawn;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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