This is an analysis of the poem When The Firmament Quivers With Daylight's Young Beam that begins with:

When the firmament quivers with daylight's young beam,
And the woodlands awaking burst into a hymn,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaa bcbc dede acac dfdf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 101001001011 101110010001 101001101001 1011010001011 111011001011 01101111001 01001111111 1011101011111 101001011011 11001001101 111001101011 101011011001 1010001011111 110101111101 101011001001 111110100101 101111101011 001111001011 111001001011 001011001001
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 208
  • Average number of words per stanza: 39
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of are repeated.

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

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