This is an analysis of the poem Song Of The Moon that begins with:
The moonlight breaks upon the city's domes,
And falls along cemented steel and stone,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcaca dedeXaaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0111010101 1101010111 0101000101 01000010101 0101010100 1111010001 1011010100 0100110111 1011001101 1111111101 1101011101 0101010101 11110101010 01010110101 10111001010 0111101101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 227
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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.
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- summary of Song Of The Moon;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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