This is an analysis of the poem River Moons that begins with:

THE DOUBLE moon, one on the high back drop of the west, one on the curve of the river face,
The sky moon of fire and the river moon of water, I am...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0101110111001110100101 0110101010101011101100101111110101011011 11011010111001111010110111111010100 010101001010010101010010101 1110110100010100101010010 11111011111111010110111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 686
  • Average number of words per stanza: 141
  • Amount of lines: 6
  • Average number of symbols per line: 114 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 24
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, moon, river, such, i, on are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

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