This is an analysis of the poem The Moon And The Comet that begins with:
This fact is clear....Both man and woman
Prize not what's good, but what's uncommon ;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddaXeeeXffgghXiijjffkkfXffffffaaddlljjaXdXgX ffffggbbXg hhffffbbhX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,44,10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010101110 111011010 11010111 10010011 110011110 11101010 111010101 11010101 11011001 11000101 11110101 100101001 0110001010 11100111000 10101011001 1000111101 100110101 10100101 11110001 1101110100 110100101 11010101 11010101 011101001 110101010 110101010 111101010 011011010 11110111 110100110 11101101 101100101 10110101 11010101 11010111 11010101 110010101 01010101 10101110101 11011101 010101010 010111010 11010101 01110100 11111111 11010011 11011101 01111111 11111101 011111010 011111001 01010101 110101010 010101010 11110101 110000101 11011101 01010111 1100011100 001011010 10011011101 11010101 11011101 110101101 1100011010 110101010 01010101 01001101 110100101 11010110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 653
- Average number of words per stanza: 112
- Amount of lines: 70
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, his, i, thy are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words perhaps, thy are repeated.
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- summary of The Moon And The Comet;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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