This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Xx: Gracious Moonlight that begins with:
Even as the moon grows queenlier in mid-space
When the sky darkens, and her cloud-rapt car... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbXcddccd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 10101110011 1011010111 10100100001 1101011101 10110101011 11011101001 1011001111 11010001000 101010111001 1101010111 01001110101 1111110011 0101110111 1111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 634
- Average number of words per stanza: 111
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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.
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