Sunday Morning by Wallace Stevens: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Sunday Morning that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: X abXacdecfgggahX X gifhcjhXkXeclXm X jnglfmobpjkkhnk X feffXenmiigbfaf X mcoffffnchfafaf X cfpjfflcibfcmfX X hhhpccpccfgXhka X ghlXhapmmfcpddf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,15,1,15,1,15,1,15,1,15,1,15,1,15,1,15,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1 1000001011 10110000101 1011000101 0101100101 0101010101 1101011101 0100110100 1011001101 0101001111 1101010001 1001110011 0101110011 1101000101 1001010101 010001110 1 1111010001 1001000011 1001011101 1111010001 0101111111 0101110001 10010101010 0100110101 1001110101 1001001100 1001010110 0101111101 1101110100 0101010101 1101010101 1 1001100101 1101011111 1101000101 11011101001 0100110101 01110100100 010111000010 0101010001 1111110100 0101011101 1101011111 01001100111 0101010101 1101000101 10010101001 1 11111011001 0111100100 0101111100 1101111111 01111101000 1011010100 1101010001 1001010111 0100110101 1101011101 0111011101 1101011001 1001000101 10010111101 10101000101 1 1110010111 010110001 10010010100 0111010011 11010111101 0101010111 0111010101 1101010111 1001010100 1101110001 1101010111 0101010011 1101011111 1101010101 11010001001 1 0111010101 1111011101 1111001011 01011111001 0101111111 1101010101 11010001001 111011101 1101010001 0111111101 0101001101 1101011001 10010010100 0111010101 1101010100 1 1011000101 1101010101 1100010001 1101110110 1001010101 1110010101 1011010001 1011110111 0101011101 01110011001 11001011100 11110100101 0111010101 1111110111 0101111101 1 1101110011 0111110101 0101010100 0001010111 1101110001 1101000111 11010110001 0111010100 1101110101 10011101001 1101000100 1001010001 11010010101 01001000111 1001010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 16
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 307
  • Average number of words per stanza: 55
  • Amount of lines: 128
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, in, nor, our, they are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines sound, paths are repeated).

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