This is an analysis of the poem The Moon that begins with:
My soul was like the sea.
Before the moon was made,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
The information we provided is prepared by means of a special computer program. Use the criteria sheet to understand greatest poems or improve your poetry analysis essay.
- Rhyme scheme: XaXaXbbbbbbcbc dXdcee dfdfgg hXhdii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101 010111 10011000 001101 100110 1100101001 0101010 10101101 11010101 1111110 01010111 01001010 011000001 111011010 11111111 00101000 01010100 1001010 11111111 01110111 11011111 100101 10111100 101101 11110111 110100111 111000101 11111000 11010101 0101110 11110011 10111111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 256
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; so, and are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Moon;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!
Pay attention: the program cannot take into account all the numerous nuances of poetic technique while analyzing. We make no warranties of any kind, express or implied, about the completeness, accuracy, reliability and suitability with respect to the information.
