This is an analysis of the poem Moonrise that begins with:

I awoke in the Midsummer not to call night, in the white and the walk of the morning:
The moon, dwindled and thinned to the fringe of a... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX aaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010011010110011010010 0110110010010110010 1100100001100101100 100111001001100010 01111011101010111100 01010010001100101100 101111010111111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 269
  • Average number of words per stanza: 48
  • Amount of lines: 7
  • Average number of symbols per line: 76 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 14
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, in, to are repeated.

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