This is an analysis of the poem On The First Night that begins with:
On the first night
of the full moon,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbXcbXdefaegfbb fFFadXabbXXafhai bgXhbXjjdedg bafhadXecibbebXfhe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,16,12,18,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011 0011 00101010 1 11101 1010 10101 10111 1011011 1110 1 11001 10100 01010010 1011 010 1101010 001010 001010 111001 11101 101 100100 1001100 01011 11110 1111100 1 010101110 101010 1011010 1101 1010101 11111 101010 10111 10101 1111100 111010 110110 1111 1111 0110 01001 111010 1011000 101110010 111101 101001 10110 11010 011 101 101 010010 100101 01101 00110 101010 001010 0110010 1
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 328
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 62
- Average number of symbols per line: 20 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; little, her, second, daughter, your, glorying are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words little, of, your are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines daughter is repeated).
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