This is an analysis of the poem Dawn that begins with:
Child waking up in a dark room
screaming I want my duck back, I want my duck back ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab c b da ebc X XX aca fce ghX gXdh X XcXX fc feXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,1,1,2,3,1,2,3,3,3,4,1,4,2,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010011 101111111111 0010111101001 1011 1011010011 01011001101 010111110 1001101 11111001 1 1111 110111010 100100010 111010001001 11101001 1001001001001 1110100101 11010011 0111010 1111010 10100100111010 1100010 11001 0100101010010 100101101 1 1001101101 10101010010 010011010010110 010101001010 11101001 1011010011000 1111111001 110101 11011011010
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 80
- Average number of words per stanza: 15
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; in, duck, to, them are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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