This is an analysis of the poem The House Was Just Twinkling In The Moon Light that begins with:
The house was just twinkling in the moon light,
And inside it twinkling with delight, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaXaaaaXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01111000011 1010100001 01101 100001001100 0011 111011101 1110100001 0011000011 0101101111 111111111111 1101101001111 010110011110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 500
- Average number of words per stanza: 91
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; twinkling, bless, my, baby, he, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word bless is repeated.
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