This is an analysis of the poem The Moon-Path that begins with:
The full, clear moon uprose and spread
Her cold, pale splendor o'er the sea;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacdbdb aaaaefef XbecegXg fhfheaXaXaaaadbdb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01111011 011101001 01111101 10000100 01010101 11110101 10100101 110101 110111001 01010001 010100101 01000101 11010101 11010101 01001111 111111 10110111 01000111 11101001 11011100 10110101 11010101 1011110 1101011 11010101 10111111 11110111 01001011 11111111 11010101 111111010 010001 10110101 11001101 11011111 11101101 110101001 11001101 11100101 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 271
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
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