This is an analysis of the poem The Moon Was But A Chin Of Gold that begins with:
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The Moon was but a Chin of Gold... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: X XXXX XXXX XXXX aXaX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 01110101 0111100 11110011 0101100 0100010100 01001010 01100101 0101110 010101010 111001 01011101 0101010 11010000 1001010 11001101 0111010 010001000 010000010 010101010 01000010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 109
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; her is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words her, the are repeated.
The author used the same word her at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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