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

AH, to be by Mooni now!
Where the great dark hills of wonder, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbbaccca cbbbcdddc AeeeacXcA fbbbfcccf dcXcdXggd ccccccXcc HiiiheeeH JjjjjbbbJ IkkXicccI clXlclllc GXXbgeeeG CeeecbXbCXCcccjkkkC
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,19,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001101 10111010 10111010 10110010 1011101 10111010 101001010 10101010 1001101 10011001 10101010 01101110 10101010 1010101 10101010 11111010 10100010 10111001 1101101 101010010 10101010 11111010 1010111 11101010 10011000 10111100 1101101 1111101 10101010 00101010 10101010 1011101 10111010 10111010 10101110 1111101 1111101 101001010 10111110 11101010 1010101 1010101 001001010 11101110 1011101 1101111 11111010 11101010 10101110 10101001 10101010 10101100 10100010 1010101 1010111 10111011 10111011 10101011 10100101 11001010 11111110 10101110 1010111 1111111 11101010 10101010 101010010 1010001 11101110 10101010 11111110 1111111 0001100 10101010 10101010 10110000 1010101 11101010 11001000 1111110 0001100 1010011 10111010 10101100 10101110 1011001 11101010 10100010 101000010 1010011 1001101 10101010 11101110 10101010 1111100 10101010 10101110 11111010 1001101 1110111 10111110 10111010 10101010 0010101 10001010 00101100 10101010 1110111 1001100 10101110 110100010 10111110 1010111 11111010 10111010 10001110 1001100
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 303
  • Average number of words per stanza: 54
  • Amount of lines: 117
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; to, and, where, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words then, certain, all are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).

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  • summary of Mooni;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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