This is an analysis of Dawn in Wartime by Babette Deutsch.
Sunrise tumbling in like a surf,
A foam of petals, curling thousands, lightly crumbling…
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Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaXbXXXbbXcXcbcXac
- Stanza lengths: 18,
- Metre: 111000101 01010101010100 01001 100011011 01011010011 1011 0101110 1001 00110101010 1011110101 110110101110 11011000001 10110110 01100101 01011011110 01100 1000110010 100111010010
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 18
Repeated words/phrases
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