This is an analysis of the poem I Watched The Moon Around The House (629) that begins with:
I watched the Moon around the House
Until upon a Pane -- ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb dbeb fefg bgdg dXXd babh Xgcg hhXh fifi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 010101 11010010011 1101 1111010 010001 11100100 010101 11010101 010100 11110111 110011 11010101 110001 0101010 010001 1101010 010101 1101000 110100 11011111 010001 11010101 110100 10111111 110011 11010101 010101 01000101 110111 1001010 110101 11110101 111101 010001001 100101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 115
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; nor, and are repeated.
The author used the same words i, but at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word upon at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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