This is an analysis of the poem At Dawn that begins with:
Turn to thy window in the silver hour
That day comes stepping down the hills of night,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cXcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110001010 1111010101 10010110010 1101110101 11011101010 0100010101 10110101010 1101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 171
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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.
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- summary of At Dawn;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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