This is an analysis of the poem Towards Break Of Day that begins with:

WAS it the double of my dream
The woman that by me lay... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdXdXdededffggbcbhXhh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 25,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10010011 0101111 1101101 10011101 11100101 011101 11111101 01010111 11110111 11001101 11011001 11110101 111101111 11110111 100101001 01110101 10111101 0100011 1101101 01110110 1110111 1101001 01001010 110111 010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 785
  • Average number of words per stanza: 152
  • Amount of lines: 25
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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