This is an analysis of the poem Nostalgia that begins with:
THE WANING MOON looks upward; this grey night
Slopes round the heavens in one smooth curve... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba cddc ceec effe dggd hiih
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101110011 110100111 010101111 01101111101 010100111111 00111010100101 01011100111 1111101001011 1101001001001 101011011011 110010010111 1011101011011 111110100101 01111101011 001100111110101 01011010011101 0001000111011 1010111111101 110011001011 11010101001 11011101101 111110110001 111110100101 11011111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 196
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, my, and, can, wish, could are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Nostalgia;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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