This is an analysis of the poem Song Of The Stars that begins with:

When the radiant morn of creation broke,
And the world in the smile of God awoke, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddee ddffgg hhiidd jjhhkk jXiill iikkgg iigXcX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 10100100101 1010010101 1010101011 0111110101 110101101 001011101 00101111001 1010010101 110100101 1010100111 100110111 011110111 110011111 110110101 0010110101 1010111101 10101011001 10101000101 11111101001 0110111101 110010101 011110101 1111100101 00100101101 11101111101 10101101101 1010010101 1011110111 11110111 10111001010 1011101101 11001101111 1101100101 0010010111 10010110010 0011101101 0011101101 110101101 1101011001 0011101011 1101101101 010111000 1100100101 0010100100 010100101 0010111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 286
  • Average number of words per stanza: 53
  • Amount of lines: 46
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; of, and, her are repeated.

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

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