This is an analysis of the poem The Old Moon In The New Moon's Arms that begins with:

The beautiful and slender young New Moon,
In trailing robes of pink and palest blue, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXaX aXaX bbbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0100110111 0101011101 1101011111 0101111101 1101110111 0101010101 1110110111 1111011011 1101010101 01110011101 0111110111 0101000111
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 186
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, my are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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