This is an analysis of the poem The Undying One' - Canto I that begins with:

MOONLIGHT is o'er the dim and heaving sea,--
Moonlight is on the mountain's frowning brow, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbdedXfefegdgd hhiijjjjggkjkjglglddmmllbb llaXeejjiigXllddneneekekih ihjjmm nnmmddllXXjjooeemm jjllmmllaaffmmacaalblbddmm ddnnjjoonnaammjjlljjmmppaa eejjjmjmmemehmhmaclmlmmmac hXmmaXqdqdfjfjmhmhjj armm dda aammppllllaa kkmhmhbb dhhdbjbjjjlXddaa gcga
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,26,26,6,18,26,26,26,20,4,3,12,8,16,8,26,26,26,26,26,24,26,26,26,12,11,22,2,14,10,6,18,12,10,23,6,20,24,26,26,16,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11010011101 1101010101 11110010100 0101001101 1111110111 11011111010 1011010101 011100101100 111110111010 1001 11110101010 1101 11011111010 11001 110101011110 0101 1111111011 11001111101 0101110101 11000100001 1100010101 0001010101 1100011101 1101110111 0111010111 1001010101 1111010101 11110111010 1001011111 11011100010 0101010101 0001010001 1101110101 1101010111 0111011101 1101010001 1111010001 1101111101 0111010101 01010100101 1111111101 0101010001 0101110111 1101111101 1101011101 0011011000 1101010101 1111010101 0101010111 10001011110 10110001001 0101010101 1101011001 0101110100 0100010101 01011110011 1001010111 11110011101 1101000101 1111110101 1111011111 0101010101 1111110101 1111000101 0011001111 1111011101 1111011101 0101110101 11001011101 1101110011 1101011111 0111010101 0111011101 0101111101 1011010101 1111000101 1101010101 101101011011 1111010111 1101110101 1011011101 1100011101 1101001000 1111101111 1111010001 11001100101 1101011101 1111011101 11010101001 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11011111 0100100111 110111 1010 001111 10010 01111 1101001 11010 111101 01110 110001 111101 11110 110101 10110 1111010 010101 11010 011101 01110 1110010 1011011101 1111111111 11011100100 1101010101 1101110111 0101011111 1101011101 1111111110 1101011101 11010010101 1001110101 1101110101 1101110101 0101 1101010101 0101 1111010101 0111010101 1101111111 0111010101 11100101111 10110101010 1101010101 111101010001 1111010101 0111011101 11111111001 0101111111 1101011101 1101010111 0101110111 01001110101 1011101101 1101010001 1111010101 0111011111 11000010111 1111011111 11011011001 10010010011 1001010101 11010011011 0101010011 0101110011 1101111111 1101101101 110010101001 0100110101 1101010101 0101110111 0101111101 0111110101 1101000101 1101010101 0110010101 1101111101 1001100100001 1101110101 11010010111 1101010101 110011100111 1101010101 1011010101 0111010011 1111110101 1111110100 10110111010 01010101010 0011110101 1110110111 1010001101 0011110101 100100111010 11010101010 1011010001 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1011110101 0101000101 010110111010 11010101010 11110011101 0111010101 01001110101 0101011111 01010011101 1001010101 1101111111 1111011001 1111010111 10110100101 1111010111 010101 1111010101 1111110101 1101110100 100101 0111111101 110101 11110101010 11010101010 1011110101 1111011101 110 0111011101 1101001001001 01110000101 1011010101 11110011101 0100010001 11110101 01110001 1101101 11010111 1011101 00111001 1000101 0011101 011101 1010101 010101001 1110001 110111110 110001010 1111111 01010101 11101111 1001110010 1010101 00101010 1111111 01101110 10100011 01101010 01011100 011111010 010100101 010101110 01010101 11010111 11111101 11110011 11111101 11111111 10010101 10011111 11011111 11010111 011100111 01011011 01101111 01110101 01110101 11110111 110100101 110011001 01110101 01000101 01011101 11111011 10110111 11010111 11011101 010101001 110000101 10010111 01011011 1001001101 11010111 10111111 10100111101 1111110101 0101011101 1001111111 11111101 01010011 11111111 01110101 010100101 11110111 11110111 11111111 11110101 11111101 11110111 01110110 11111111 11111111 1100011101 0111110101 11111111001 1101111001 1100011101 01011100101 1101010001 0101011101 1101011101 11001111101 10110101001 1011011111 1101010101 0101010100 1101 110111 1111110101 1101000111 0101111101 1101111101 0011010100 1111111 01111111 10111111 01010101 00111101 01111100 11111111 11111101 10111110 10111111 11011111 10011111 1111110011 1111010101 11110011010 1111110111 1100011100 1101010111 11010111 11010101 100101 11000101 110101101 111111 11011111 01001101 010101 11011011 10111101 101101 1111010101 1100110100 1111 0111010101 01110010101 011101 11110101101 110100100101 10010111100 1001011101 1100111101 11010101001 1101100101 1101110111 1011100101 1101110101 10101101001 1011110100 11111101 110100101 11010111 01010101 11010101 01110111 01011101 01011101 111100110 01001101 1111011101 110101110111 11001101 11010101 11010111 1100111 11010101 10010111 11011101 01110101 01010111 11010101 11111011 10111101 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  • Amount of stanzas: 35
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 856
  • Average number of words per stanza: 155
  • Amount of lines: 748
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, her, in, of, that, i, here, no, my, me, not, one, where, they, from, land, his, but are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words moonlight, and, her, a, , here, to, no, i've, the, on, when, i, why, for are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases , here, there connect the lines.

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