This is an analysis of the poem The Summer Moon that begins with:
How is it, O moon, that melting
Unstintedly, prodigally,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXabcbXaXXXcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic tetrameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 10011110 10001000 1011100 1110100 110101 11011001 1111110 1010101 1001100 001001010 100111 1110101 1111101 00101101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 403
- Average number of words per stanza: 72
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of The Summer Moon;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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