This is an analysis of the poem How To Accompany The Moon Without Walking that begins with:

Harsh, harsh, the maram grass on the salt dune,
seen by the cricket’s eye against the harbor moon, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaa bbb ccc aaa aaa Xbb aaa ccc ccc aaX aaa ddd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101011011 110101010101 1011100111 01010101001 1001110111 01001111101 10011011101 1011111011 10001110101 11001110101 11001010101 10011110101 01110110101 1011010101 1101010101 1111110111 1011010111 110100100101 1101111111 01001110101 110100010101 111101101110 110111101010 101100111010 11011101010 10111011110 10111101010 1101111111 11111101001 100100100100 1111100101 1111010111 11010101001 11101010111 1111010011 1101011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 145
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; moon, and are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines moon is repeated).

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