This is an analysis of the poem Mentana : First Anniversary that begins with:
At the time when the stars are grey,
And the gold of the molten moon... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccab cXddce cfggcf chaach ceccce eijjei aekkae bkllbk fhmmfh nliinl dbdddb ciccci dgkkdh XbggXb oaXloX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110111 10100101 1101101 10111101 0111001 0101101 10100111 10100111 101010001 001001101 101001101 0111011 10101011 111001 11101110 11101110 10111101 0011011001 1001001010 1001001 10111001 10111111 10111001010 1001001 100101111 101011001 1101001 1001001 00100111 111001 101111010 11101011 111101011 00101001 0110010010 00111001 10111001011 11011001 101100101 11001001 10100011 1101101 101011101 11101101 1110111111 111111011 1101111 1111111 10101011 0101011 110110011 11101101 01010001 0100111 10111011 1111011 1011111 0001101 1111111 111111001 10111111 111111101 1101011 101011 10111011 11100101 101101111 01111111 101011101 111011011 111101111 101101001 101111110 0101110 1111011 11110101 101010110 1111011 101011010 1111101 11111110 11111010 1100011000 11001001 1010110010 1010110 1100111 0100101 1010110110 11110010
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 214
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 90
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, light, it, time, my, springs, thy, your, not, mine, at are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, the, o, and, of, at are repeated.
The author used the same word o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).
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