This is an analysis of Daybreak. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The First) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

A wind came up out of the sea,
And said, 'O mists, make room for me.'…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aX bX aX XX XX XX bX XX aX
  • Stanza lengths: 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
  • Metre: 01111001 11111111 01011111 110001010 11010101 10100001 01100101 11110101 01011101 11110111 110011100 110010101 01000101 11110101 010101010 10110101 01011001 11110101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 9
  • Lines: 18

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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