This is an analysis of the poem Moonrise Over Tyringham that begins with:

Now the high holocaust of hours is done,
And all the west empurpled with their death,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaX cdcd Xcec cdcX fafa efef dgXg hihi egeg djdj idid fhfh eded kXki gaga fgfgXbfbf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 10110101001 1101100011 11010010101 1101011000 11101101101 1101010101 1001011101 11111000001 1111111100 1011010001 1111011101 1111011101 1101010001 1101111101 1111110111 11010111110 1110110101 1011010101 1011010001 1101010011 0100010101 1101010101 1111110101 01011101001 110100101101 1011000101 1101010010 1110011101 1101001101 11010111101 1101011101 1111101101 1011111101 11010010111 11010010001 11110111001 0111110011 1111110111 1111110101 1110010101 11011100111 0101110101 1001010101 1101101111 11000110111 10110111101 11000100111 1101111111 1111111111 1011010001 11011111111 1111010101 1101011111 01011101010 1101001101 0101010001 110110101001 0101010111 0101010111 11110110001 0101000111 1001110101 100100001001 0111110101 1101010101 11110111010 0101011101 11001000010
  • Amount of stanzas: 17
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 175
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 68
  • 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; and, thy, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words how, and are repeated.

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