This is an analysis of the poem At Dawn that begins with:
THE night-long clamour of winds grew still;
The forest rested, its foes withdrawn;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcddedefbfbgXgghaha
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011100111 010100101 110101101 110100101 010110101 110010101 110110111 011110101 110110111 010010101 01110101 110101001 101100110 11110111 1101110010 10110101 110100111 11110100 010100001 01010001 11111111 01010101 11011111 10010111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 884
- Average number of words per stanza: 167
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
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