This is an analysis of the poem Feelings On Watching The Moon that begins with:

Time hard year famine life land empty
Brothers live abroad each east west...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXbXXcXaXXacXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Metre: 111101110 10101111 110111110 11101111 1111011111 110111101000 010111111 1111110101110101011001 11010110111 11110110110010 100101010101 0101111110101 1110000010101 110101011110111 011111111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 759
  • Average number of words per stanza: 133
  • Amount of lines: 15
  • Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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