This is an analysis of the poem The Last Quarter Of The Moon that begins with:
How long shall I tarnish the mirror of life,
A spatter of rust on its polished steel!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbba cdddc efffe ghXhg fiXXX jdddj fkkkf illli lmmml
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111001001 0100110101 0101 10101 1111001111 010100101 1100111101 0111 10111 0101100111 01011000101 0100111001 1101 1001 111011101 01001101001 10101101101 10110 1111 1110101011 110111011 1100111111 11110 111100 1101111101 011000101 110100111 1101 00100 100101111 001111011 1110101101 10101 1001 0100100101 110100101 010111011 1111 1101 111101101 1100110111 100100101 11001 00101 0110110101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 163
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 45
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; and, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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