This is an analysis of the poem All Souls that begins with:
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A THIN moon faints in the sky o'erhead,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a XbccbbDD X cceeffDX X ggeehhDD X bbeXXdDX a bbccddDX a iibbaXDd XXhhhhggaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 0111001100 110011101 11111101 1011110101 110011101 10110101101 1010011111 1011110111 1 111111001 00101111101 110101101 001001011101 1101001111 00100101111 10110110111 1011110111 1 1110110101 1111100101 110111101 010111101 10110100101 111100101 1010011111 1011110111 1 1111111001 11111111001 10111111111 0010010101 1111111110 0111111001 10110110111 1011110111 1 11111111111 11100011111 1010010101 0100101101 101101101001 1010111101 1010011111 1011110111 1 111010101 110011101 1011110111 1111111001 1110110111 111111111 10110110111 10101110111 1 111111111 111100101 110111111 1111011001 11111111 1111111101 1011111001 10100101101
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 185
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 63
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; and, of, where, us, one, how are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words let, and are repeated.
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