This is an analysis of the poem My English Letter that begins with:
When each white moon, her lantern idly swinging,
Comes out to join the star night-watching band, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd XeXe afaf gfgf fefe ahah ijij
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11110101010 1101011101 01011101010 1101000101 11110101110 1101110101 11110111110 0101110100 01110111010 0111010111 1111010110 1101010101 10000101110 1101011101 11010100010 0111010101 11110101110 1001111101 11110111010 1111111101 11010111110 11010011111 01010101010 0111110101 11011111010 0101010101 11110101010 1100010101 11111111010 0101111111 01100011010 1100111101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 185
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; to, that, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word near at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of My English Letter;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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