This is an analysis of the poem Nocturne that begins with:
The earth, still heavy and warm with afternoon,
Dazed by the moon:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bb XX ac dd bb ee cc bb ee dXbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110110101 1101 011100011 100001 11010010101 0101100 11110111 01000101 0101 111010101 0100110101 1000101 0101100101 0101000101 01011001 0101010101 111111 11010111 1111 011101011101 10011001 1101011 011100101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 63
- Average number of words per stanza: 12
- Amount of lines: 23
- 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; moon, of are repeated.
The author used the same words the, of, why at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Nocturne;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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