This is an analysis of the poem On The Downs that begins with:
THE little moon is dead,
Drowned in the flood of rain ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababa aaaaa bcbcb ddddd efefe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010101 100101 11010111 110001 010111111111 0110001 101101 11010101 010101 110101010101 110101 110111 01011111 110101 110111110101 110111 100111 10110111 011111 11101010010101 011101 010101 00110101 010101 0111010110111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 182
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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