This is an analysis of the poem At Dawn that begins with:
No wild-foot Dryad haunts this leafless glade
With woodland lures, old weird lures chanted long;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbacdefdcfe bcbccbaghigajh aaaaaaaceicaie cjcijcgaekagke ljljjljmXfmifX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,14,14,14,14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111110101 0111111101 110011101 010100001 1001110001 1101010001 1011010101 1101010101 1100010101 010001 1011111101 1101110101 11010101001 1111010101 0111110111 0111010101 1111011101 0101011101 1101011101 1101011111 0111110111 1101011111 0101010101 110100 1011011111 1111111101 1111110011 1101010101 1111110101 0101010111 1101111101 1111011101 1111010101 1101010101 11010101001 1111100101 111101101 111100 1111011111 1011110101 1011111100 1101011111 1011010101 1111010101 1101011111 1101010100 1011010101 01010100111 1101011111 1001010101 11001101001 110100 1100110101 01011100011 0110010100 10110101001 1101010101 010100101001 1001010111 1110010011111 1101111001 10101101001 1101010011 1001011101 11110110100 10011 1011111101 1011010100 10011100001 110111010010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 599
- Average number of words per stanza: 102
- Amount of lines: 70
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; no, and, night are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase light connects the lines.
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