This is an analysis of the poem The Voice And The Dusk that begins with:
THE slender moon and one pale star,
A rose leaf and a silver bee...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaX babX cdcd bebe fXfX cdcd cbcbXdbdb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01011111 01110101 01110101 11011100 01011111 010101011 00110101 010101010 01010101 01000101 01110111 11111101 01010001 010111001 11010101 010100001 01010001 01010101 11010101 10110101 01000101 11000101 10010101 0100101101 10010101 11001101 01000101 10010111 01110101 01110011 01011101 10110001
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 136
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, a are repeated.
The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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