This is an analysis of the poem On Leaping Over The Moon that begins with:

I saw new worlds beneath the water lie,
New people; ye, another sky ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaabbccbb aaddeeccff Xaghheeaa ccaaiijgjj jjjjccafdakk llddaaefee aaaaeckkXccef
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,9,10,12,10,13,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111010101 11010101 111111 111101 11010 01110 0001011111 01111101 11010101010 110110010 0101110101 1111111 111101 110101 1001 0101 0101001101 11010101 1001110101 0101011 11110100111 01010101 1011101 1101 1101 11111001 11110101 1111010101 10100101 1111111100 00010001 100101 100111 1111 1101 1101111101 11010101 1111010101 110110001 1101010111 01110101 110101 010101 0111 1111 0101100101 0101 01 01 0101010101 11010101 1101010111 10010101 011101 110101 1111 0100 0101010101 10110100 1001011101 11011011 1111010101 01011111 011101 010101 1 1 11 0101 1011100101 01010101 1111101110 110110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 271
  • Average number of words per stanza: 50
  • Amount of lines: 73
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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 On Leaping Over The Moon;
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