This is an analysis of the poem Songs Of The Autumn Nights that begins with:
I.
O night, send up the harvest moon...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcbX cdcd ebeb cfcf X gaga acac hchc gaga X didi bjbj fkfk bfbf X dada acc acc hXhdXgfgf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,1,4,3,3,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 11110101 010101 11011101 110111 01010101 100101 11010101 01111 11010101 101101 010011101 010101 11110101 100101 01011111 110101 1 11011101 111011 110100101 1100101 01111111 011101 01011001 010101 010110001 110101 01010001 010101 11100101 111101 01011101 110111 1 01010101 110101 01010101 110101 11011111 111111 01010111 010111 11010101 010101 11001111 011101 11011101 110111 111100101 110101 1 10110111 111111 11111101 111101 1 1111101 111111 1 1111111 111101 11110101 110110 110100111 111111 11111101 011101 11111101 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 21
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 93
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 73
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, i, no, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, the, i are repeated.
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