This is an analysis of the poem As Sure As The Sun Rises To Set that begins with:

Surviving natural disasters,
With the taking away of material things......

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaXXbX XcdXadeXaee babaffdbaXeb XaabcaXbe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,11,12,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010100010 001001001001 1011111110 1101101101 1010010 0011110111 110101011 0101010101 1010101110100 11101110 0100001 111101010 01111010 110111001 00100011101 01001101001 1010111101001 10011110111 111011001 1011101101000 0101 0100010110111 1100010 1111101110 0111011 11010111001 1010011 110100101010 001001001 110001 11010011 00111 101101101 00100011 11100 111110010 1010 111010010011 1100010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 366
  • Average number of words per stanza: 63
  • Amount of lines: 39
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, as, they are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word no is repeated.

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  • history of its creation;
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