This is an analysis of the poem The Eighth Of September that begins with:
This day, Today, was a brimming glass.
This day, Today, was an immense wave....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXXabXXbXacXaXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010110101 010111011 011101 01011010 1011001 1010110 10101 11111 11011001 011101 110110 1001101 01101101001 01110011 11101111 10111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 484
- Average number of words per stanza: 92
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; this, day are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words this, and are repeated.
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