This is an analysis of the poem Half Moon In A High Wind that begins with:
MONEY is nothing now, even if I had it,
O mooney moon, yellow half moon,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXc XddXacc bXXXbXXbXbba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,7,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100101100110 11011011 110011111 10011 11 1101101 10010001 11001111 10111001 101001101 11101110011 111111 1111111 10110110 1111111 1101011 1010101110 10011010 11101111 11101110 1111111 1111 100101100110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 768
- Average number of words per stanza: 155
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; streel, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words up, streel are repeated.
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