This is an analysis of the poem The Moon Maiden's Song that begins with:
Sleep! Cast thy canopy
Over this sleeper's brain, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab CDCD bXbaXCDCD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111100 100101 110100 11101 110101 110101 11011 100101 111111 110101 111101 111100 110101 110101 11011 100101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 113
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of The Moon Maiden's Song;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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