This is an analysis of the poem The Nameless Wraith that begins with:
As one who seeks the silver moth of night
Where moonless gardens lose the afterglow,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXa bccb dXXd ebbe affa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111010101 1101010101 1111100001 11010100001 01001100101 0101011101 10010010001 1110011111 0101010001 1101011101 01001001110 01010010111 10110100101 1001100010001 1010010011 1101010101 1001010101 0100010100 1111000101 1001110001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 174
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; from, and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word from is repeated.
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