This is an analysis of the poem Phases Of The Moon that begins with:
Once upon a time I heard
That the flying moon was a Phoenix bird; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccaaddeeff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic tetrameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1010111 1010110101 1111101 10010111 100111001 01011101 1110101 10111101 1110101 10010101 10110101 11101111 11011100 010010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 484
- Average number of words per stanza: 95
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word thus is repeated.
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