This is an analysis of the poem On An Eclipse Of The Moon that begins with:
Struggling, and faint, and fainter didst thou wane,
O Moon! and round thee all thy starry train...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 10011110111 1111111101 1101101101 11010010101 1011011101 1101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 282
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 6
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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