This is an analysis of the poem Diya that begins with:
Look, Dear, how bright the moonlight is to-night!
See where it casts the shadow of that tree ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaabaXcdeadfgXbhaafXghfaXbbeibfhfdfeigjjficadaf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 48,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111011001 1101011011 11010111001 0111110001 010010110111 1101111011 11011001011 0101111001 0111010111 0101010001 10011101001 0100111101 11111111101 1101111011 1110011110 1111111100 1101100101 1101010111 11000110101 1101100111 11111101010 1101000101 1111110101 1101010011 1111011101 01010110101 1111010101 1111011001 1011011100 1111010101 1101010001 1111110111 1001010101 0111110011 0111011111 1111101101 1101001111 1110010011 1101011111 0101111111 1111111101 10110101111 1001010101 11001000111 1101011101 0101111101 10010000100 010001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2069
- Average number of words per stanza: 402
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; you, that, me, to, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word of is repeated.
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