This is an analysis of the poem The Garden By Moonlight that begins with:
A black cat among roses,
Phlox, lilac-misted under a first-quarter moon, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXXcdaefcXeXabXdbaaaXfb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0110110 111101001101 0110100111101 0100101 001011 010001 1001001001010 101110110 1101100101 110110010111 110111100 111010111 1001010001101101110 10011001010 10111010010 1100101010001 111 111101010 111010010 11001010100101 101011111010 11110 1101001011 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 943
- Average number of words per stanza: 165
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, moon, only, and are repeated.
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- summary of The Garden By Moonlight;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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