This is an analysis of the poem Serenade that begins with:
THOU moon, like a white Christus hanging
At the sky's cross-roads, I'll court thee not, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbabXXcXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011010 101111111 1100111111 1011011110 1111001101 1001110110 101101111111 1101111100 10010101110 10001110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 465
- Average number of words per stanza: 82
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Serenade;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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