This is an analysis of the poem The Moonlight Desert that begins with:
Above the desert's dark-obscured expanse
The rounded moon uplooms; at once laid clear...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaXbbc ddcddc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0101010101 0101101111 0111010111 1100100101 01010101100 1111011101 0110010101 110110011 1011011001 0101110101 1101011101 1011010101 0111010011 0110000101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 293
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of The Moonlight Desert;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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