This is an analysis of the poem Flos Lunae that begins with:

I would not alter thy cold eyes,
Nor trouble the calm fount of speech... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: AbabA AcacA AdadAXAdadA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,11,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 11110111 11001101 01010101 01011101 11110111 11110111 11111111 11111111 0100101001 11110111 11110111 11111011 01111011 10011101 11110111 11110111 01000101 01111101 01010101 11110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 172
  • Average number of words per stanza: 34
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, i, would, not 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 i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines eyes is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word eyes at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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