This is an analysis of the poem Foster The Light that begins with:
Foster the light nor veil the manshaped moon,
Nor weather winds that blow not down the bone,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabaXb ccdcXd eefegX ffbfcb XXcXgb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10011101001 1101111101 110110100010 1001110101 1111010001 0001001011100 100011101001 1101010001 111110101110 1001010101 1111010101 01100100100 11011101110 11111101010 110110101110 01010001010 1111110101 110111000100 1100100101 1101110111 011101000101 1111100111 1001011101 11110101010 1111110001 1110010101 01111001010 1101000101 1101011111 01010011010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 265
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; nor, in are repeated.
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