This is an analysis of the poem Ringed Moon that begins with:
Moonlight falls distant and dry,
Frosting the snowfields in lustre;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbAbaCC AdAdaCC AeAeaCC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111011 10010010 1101011 10111010 1011001 11111010 10110010 1111011 100011010 1101011 10011010 1001001 11111010 10110010 1111011 11010110 1101011 11111010 1011001 11111010 10110010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 242
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The author used the same word moonlight at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word immortals at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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