This is an analysis of the poem I Know Moonrise that begins with:

I know moonrise, I know starrise,
Lay dis body down. ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXA XAXA bAbA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101110 11101 110011110011 011101 110011111011 011101 1100111111 011101 11001000100001 1111101 11111101001 1111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; i, de are repeated.

    The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The poet repeated the same word down at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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