This is an analysis of the poem Moon-Struck that begins with:
IT is a moor
Barren and treeless; lying high and bare ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcd aefeccgXcedceaXchdebidfXXiafgidcefebbacX dbfaaccbbeadjk afe ifXkbdd bdldcbmejljica adcad cXhaXmde
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,40,14,3,7,14,5,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0001 1011010111 010110101 1100100111 1101010101 1101010111 0101011101 1101100111 1101010101 1101100001 11010101001 1111110101 10111111110 1110011101 0111010111 01110010101 1110111111 0111110001 11001 11101 1101011101 1001110111 0011011101 1011111101 1101011111 1111111101 1100111101 11110010111 100110101001 1100111100 0111110001 11011111001 110101 1111 101010110011 11010011011 01111011101 11 11110111 1100011101 11010101001 1111010101 11110100101 1101111111 1110011010 01000011111 1111111001 1111010101 100111100111 111100111001 1010000101 0111010011 0101111011 1111 11110001 0111011011 0111111111 11001010101 0101110001 1111110101 1011110101 1111 111111 110010100101 110111 1111 1011111011 1101110111 1011110111 1111010101 110110001010 11101111001 1100111111 1111010101 10110111001 0111111101 1001000101 1 001011111 1101111111 1011110111 1101011111 0101111111 1101111101 1001110111 1111011111 1001111111 001111101101 1001010101 0101011101 1 001110111 11 11010111 0110100001010 11110101001
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 486
- Average number of words per stanza: 91
- Amount of lines: 96
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, ghost, no, my, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, i are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ghost, stars, moan are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase out connects the lines.
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- summary of Moon-Struck;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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