This is an analysis of the poem The Moon's Minion that begins with:
Thine eyes are like the sea, my dear,
The wand'ring waters, green and grey;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbcbc ababdbdX ececdbdb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110111 01010111 11110011 111101011 010001001 01111111 110110101 01010101 01110101 01110101 11110101 110111011 11111111 11111101 01011101 01111101 11100101 11101101 11010111 110100101 11110111 11110101 10001111 10011111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 290
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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, thou, shalt, she, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, she, and are repeated.
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