This is an analysis of the poem In The Moonlight that begins with:
An army of vermin, mice, rats
Romps in the hallway which shimmers in the moonlight....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a b X c d d c a b X X d d d d X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001011 100111100011 01111001110 101001101110 010001100010 11011011 11011110 01101001 00111101 1101011 101100011 11111011 111110101 1010101101 100101001010 101001101
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 40
- Average number of words per stanza: 7
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; in is repeated.
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- summary of In The Moonlight;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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