This is an analysis of the poem Back Yard that begins with:
Shine on, O moon of summer.
Shine to the leaves of grass, catalpa and oak, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXX ab X aXab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,2,1,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111010 10010110011 110101101 1010101010101010100 010101001111011011110110 11111010100111001010011 0111111111010111011111 1111 111111010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 106
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 9
- Average number of symbols per line: 59 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word shine is repeated.
The author used the same word an at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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