This is an analysis of the poem Thomas Middleton: Ix that begins with:
A WILD MOON riding high from cloud to cloud,
That sees and sees not, glimmering far beneath,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdcdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0111010101 11111100101 110100101001 0111110101 0111110101 01110011101 11110010111 10011001111 0101010111 1111011101 0111110111 1101110111 110101100101 1101110111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 694
- Average number of words per stanza: 122
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; s, and are repeated.
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