This is an analysis of the poem The Moon that begins with:
Time wears her not; she doth his chariot guide;
Mortality below her orb is placed. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xab cccb dede fafa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 11011101001 0100010101 10 011010011 110101 11011111 110100 11111110 101111 11011001 111101 10110101 11001 11000101 110001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 118
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; not is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of The Moon;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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