This is an analysis of the poem Thou Orb Aloft Full-Dazzling that begins with:
THOU orb aloft full-dazzling! thou hot October noon!
Flooding with sheeny light the gray beach sand,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcd eddXda XfbaXXX XXffefcXdfe fXfe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,6,7,11,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11011100110101 1001010111 010011010111 1101111101 1101100110101 110100 11011111111 10110111010111111 1010101 110111111101111 1010 11101101011 110101011101 11001010111011 111 111111010101110 1010 110101111110101 110100111 101001101110111 1010101011010101 1001 101011101011001 11010010011101001 110111110110101 10001 11101111010101101 1010 1111 11011101011111 010101010111011100 11 011101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 335
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (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; and, or, o'er are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words o'er, thou are repeated.
The author used the same word thou at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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