This is an analysis of the poem Moorland Night that begins with:
My face is against the grass - the moorland grass is wet -
My eyes are shut against the grass, against my lips there are the little blades, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcacaXd bedfgXfhhXcgghehXh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,18,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1100101011101 111101010111110101 101101011110011011 11001011011011111 011101101 11101 00010010 0101 00010101 100110011 101111001010111 1101011001 11110101 0111001 010111110001 01010101011111 1001110101110101 1111100101011101 1101 1110111101 1101011101 010111011111 01110101110111011 1100110101 1011111001 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 618
- Average number of words per stanza: 127
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, against, grass, not, it, to, give are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words my, the are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines back is repeated).
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