This is an analysis of the poem What Is The Moon that begins with:
Oh mother, how does the sky look? And what is light and what is the moon?
About their beauty you speak, but I don't see any of it....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabXXaXccabb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011011110111001 011101111111000 001100110010 110111110110011 11010101111 1110010010111 11010101101001010 101010101011011 1101101101010110 10111110111101001 11111101101 10101110100101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 683
- Average number of words per stanza: 136
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i, walk, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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