This is an analysis of the poem Break Of Day that begins with:
There seemed a smell of autumn in the air
At the bleak end of night; he shivered there ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbbcbc dedebbaXaf gcgcffdfdffdcc hghgibbiieehh jXejhchce Xe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,10,14,13,9,2,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101010001 1011011101 0011011111 1101110111 10001111101 1101011111 10111100110 1001001101 1111111001 1001010011 0101111111 1101010101 1111111101 1101110011 0111010101 1011110101 1100111101 1100111111 1101110101 1101010101 1100010101 01001010101 1101010101 0101010111 11001010101 1111010111 1111010111 11001010101 11111100101 1101011101 1101001101 110111111 11010101001 1100111001 1110010101 1101010101 1101011101 0101110111 0011010100 0101011101 11011111011 11110101001 1011010001 1101011101 01010000101 10110101011 1011010101 0111010101 1011010101 01000011101 0111011101 1101010101 1111111001 0101010010 1001011110 11001110011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 427
- Average number of words per stanza: 79
- Amount of lines: 57
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, of, and, he, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word he is repeated.
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