This is an analysis of the poem Dearest Man-In-The-Moon that begins with:

Dearest man-in-the-moon,
ever since our lunch of cheese...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXaXcbdXefabXf aedXfcXgXgb Xeaeef
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,11,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101001 1011101 10 1011001 111010011 0101 1000111 0100010 10101 01011 101110 0101 0111010 111110 111001010 101101 110111 100110 11011 10111 1101 11010 010101011 0111010 0111101 1100101 1110111 111 01001001 111 01010011 101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 264
  • Average number of words per stanza: 51
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 24 (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.

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