This is an analysis of the poem Dawn that begins with:

Ecstatic bird songs pound
the hollow vastness of the sky ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXbbXXcXXacbXaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010111 01010001 001010 10101000 1011100100 01001010 100001 100000101 10100101 01000100101 101010 1110101 011111 100010100 101010110 11
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 483
  • Average number of words per stanza: 79
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it is repeated.

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

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Dawn;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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