This is an analysis of the poem While The West Is Paling that begins with:
While the west is paling
Starshine is begun.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa bcbc bdbd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010 10010 101010 10101 111010 10101 101010 10101 101010 11110 101110 11101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 88
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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