This is an analysis of the poem At Dawn And Dusk that begins with:

At Dawn and Dusk
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  • Rhyme scheme: abb cdeedcXfgaagfa hgccghc hcffchf achhcah fciicfi hccccec fgddgfd jchhcjhkdeedke hchhcXh dleeldeegmmgem
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,14,7,7,7,7,7,7,14,7,14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1111 110 010001010 1111111101 011111011010 1101111101 1111010101 01011101010 1011011111 110100 1011110101 11011101110 0101110101 1111011111 01111101010 1111011101 010101 1101111101 10011011010 11010001101 1111010101 10010101110 0111110101 011111 1111010111 11110101010 1101011111 1101110111 1110111010 0101110111 111101 1101010101 01010100010 01011101010 11011111010 11011111110 1101000101 1111010 1011011111 11111001110 1111111111 1011000111 11110110010 1001111101 100111 0111110100 11110111010 00101111111 1111001101 10011111110 1101010101 010101 0111111101 11110111110 11011011101 1101011101 010001101110 0011111011 011111 1111011111 11110111010 0101110101 0101011111 11110101110 1100010101 110011 01110011101 01110111010 1011111111 1111111110 11100001010 0101010101 111101 1111110101 11101101110 0101111111 0101111101 11110101010 1011110101 010101 1001111111 11110011010 1011011111 1111111110 11011101110 00010110001 010101 1101110100 11110111010 1001101101 1001110101 11111111010 1111010101 110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 379
  • Average number of words per stanza: 70
  • Amount of lines: 96
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; to, of, thou, in, dead, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words down, what are repeated.

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