This is an analysis of the poem The Moors that begins with:

NOT in rich glebe and ripe green garden only
Does Summer weave her sweet resistless spells, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcbcb dedeXfcf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 10111111010 1101011001 10111111110 0101000101 11111101110 01001010101 01110101010 1001011101 01011111111 1101111111 11010101111 0111100101 11111111010 1111110111 11010101110 11011101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 388
  • Average number of words per stanza: 69
  • Amount of lines: 17
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; and, of, you are repeated.

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