This is an analysis of the poem The Sadness Of The Moon that begins with:

THE Moon more indolently dreams to-night
Than a fair woman on her couch at rest, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaa bcbc dedXeaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 0111000101 1011010111 0100010111 0111011001 0101010101 1011011101 1100110101 1111000101 1111100101 1011010111 1101010001 1001010101 1101010101 1100011001
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 151
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • summary of The Sadness Of The Moon;
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  • history of its creation;
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