This is an analysis of the poem Croquet By Moonlight that begins with:

On a moonlight evening, in the month of May,
A number of young people were playing at croquet,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaa X aAXA bbcc D eeaa D eeaa D fXfX D aaaa D aXaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,1,4,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 10111000101 0100110010101 110010010001 11010111110101 10 01110101 011101 00010101 011101 111010011111 110010111110101 0101010110111 01010101111111 10011100 11011100101111 1101101001111 1101010110111 1111010110101 10011100 111010110101 1111010111011 1011101101111 110101100111 10011100 1011010111111 1101101111110100 0101010011111 010100111010010 10011100 1101011110111 110101011110101 011110111101 11111110110101 10011100 101111010111 110101010110100 11010101110101 00010101101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 38
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; croquet, and, she are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words this, they, the, she are repeated.

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

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