This is an analysis of the poem The Creation Of The Moon that begins with:

The man cut his throat and left his head there.
The others went to get it....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdcebfgdhcdi fgbb ibIba Ifaijbe iXd bgk eda bhd jbbbbbbegXb XXg iXli jX Xg ikXfXeelde
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,4,5,7,3,3,3,3,11,3,4,2,2,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0110111011 0101010 11111101001 10101111001 11011001 101011101 010111101011 110 10111101 010011101001 010010 1011011001 1100010001 1101 11010 101100 11101101 01100111 011101001 110111 101101 0110101 101111 101101 1101100010 01101010101 101101011 010110110101111 10111001 0111001111 011111101 11011000 11110101 011101 0110011100 1101110 11 1101111010101 11010010101 101011 101101010001001 01011100011001 1011001101100 00100101110 00100111110 001000111100 00100011110110 00100011110 00100011110 0010001 11010110 001001011110 100110 101101100100010 01100011101110 111100 01101110111 1110100 11101101101 0101100001 01001001011 01010110111 101101111100010 01001 011001101 011110 0110101000110 01010 11101001 010001 0110011101100 101001 01101110001
  • Amount of stanzas: 15
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 191
  • Average number of words per stanza: 39
  • Amount of lines: 73
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; head, they, so, fruit, and, it, would, if, turned, into, to, climb are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, they, so, if, it are repeated.

    The author used the same words the, so at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).

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  • summary of The Creation Of The Moon;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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