This is an analysis of the poem A Lyric Day that begins with:
I deem that there are lyric days
So ripe with radiance and cheer,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXcXc XdXdaeee fffffgfg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101 11010011 11010111 11010101 10100110 11111001 11110111 01001101 01100101 11110101 01111100 01110111 11110101 01011101 11110101 010011010 11111111 01010111 01000101 01110101 11010111 01110111 01000111 100101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 260
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; of, dawn, with, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words so, of are repeated.
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