This is an analysis of the poem To The Setting Sun that begins with:
STAY, O sweet day, nor fleet so fast away
For now it is that life revives again,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbcbc Adedede Afgfgfg ahehehe AijXjij
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111111101 1100110101 1011010101 1111010101 1101110101 0101010101 1101111011 1111111101 11011111011 1111000011 1011010111 1011010111 1111111111 1101011111 1111111101 1011110101 1011110101 1101110101 1101010101 1101010101 1011110101 1111111101 11011001010 1101111101 11011111110 1111011101 01011101110 1101101001 1111111101 1111100111 0101010111 1101011100 0101111101 1111011101 1011101101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 317
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, so are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word stay at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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