This is an analysis of the poem Before Day that begins with:
Come in this hour to set my spirit free
When earth is no more mine though night goes out, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXbbba acaaca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 10010011101 1101111111 1101111100 1011111100 1101110111 0101010101 1111111101 0011011101 1011110111 1101010111 1001010101 1101011111 1111010011 10011111101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 307
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Before Day;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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