This is an analysis of the poem A Moth that begins with:
I, like a moth to the candle,
Am chained by a glance from your eye....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaBaXcXcXdadXefe ghfhbadafbgbahahgaBa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,20,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010010 11101011 0111010010 011101011 111010110 11111101 110110110 111011101 110110111 01011111 110111111 101101001 110110111 01011111 111010010 101011001 1111110110 11001111 110100010 11001111 110010010 110010001 111011111 11001111 110010110 11011010 1110010110 11111001 010011111 01011111 110110011 01011001 110111110 11011011 0111010010 011111111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 672
- Average number of words per stanza: 136
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; i, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words if, i, go, the are repeated.
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- summary of A Moth;
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- idea of the verse;
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