This is an analysis of the poem Hymn To The Sun that begins with:
Giver of glowing light!
Though but a god of other days, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaaaaXbccbXdeedXaXaaffeef
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 25,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100101 11010101 01110 01010 1111001101 100101 1110101 1111 1001 1111010011 100101 11011101 1111 0101 0111010101 100101 11110011 1101 11010 1111011001 100101 1111000101 1101 1111 0101000101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 720
- Average number of words per stanza: 133
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
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