This is an analysis of the poem Sunrise that begins with:
Foul times there are when nations spiritless
Throw honour away...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa bcbc cdcd eded cccc babX Xfbf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111110100 11001 1101001100 0101 1001010101 11001 1101100111 1101 1101110101 11001 1011011111 11001 1111011101 1111 1111111101 1100 110000110101 11110 111101101 01001 1111010101 1100 100100101101 1100 1011110111 0101 10111100101 10101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 129
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; one is repeated.
The author used the same word then at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Sunrise;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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