This is an analysis of the poem The Moon Shines In My Body that begins with:
The moon shines in my body,
but my blind eyes cannot see it:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabc ba XaXc Xb aXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,2,4,2,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0110110 11111010 010011 11001 010100100010011 11111010 1111101011010 01111 111001101001 10100101 11111011010010 111110101 0101101 101101010 010001 101010101 0100101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, work are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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