This is an analysis of the poem Song Of Myself, XXV that begins with:

Dazzling and tremendous how quick the sun-rise would kill me,
If I could not now and always send sun-rise out of me.... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aa bcXd XXb bXededa XaX aXc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,4,3,7,3,3,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 100101011011111 01111111111101 110011001010101 1111111001110011 11110111101 0010111010111001 100101100001001001 0011010010100 1101011111011 11101010110111010010 111111101011110 100101011 0101001110001 1101010010011 110111010100010011 10010101111101101001 110101011101100111101 0101110100101 111101111010011 10111111 11001001110011011 00101111001010
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 213
  • Average number of words per stanza: 41
  • Amount of lines: 22
  • Average number of symbols per line: 57 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 11
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, sun, my, it, of, you, i, me are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word we is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).

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