This is an analysis of the poem Thief Of The Moon that begins with:

Thief of the moon, thou robber of old delight,
Thy charms have stolen the star-gold, quenched the moon- ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababbcbc defdfe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 10011100101 111100111001 111011100101 110111100001 11110111101 110010101101 110011100011 11111100111 1111110001 11011111110 01011101011 1101011101 11011100111 10111101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 354
  • Average number of words per stanza: 63
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 50 (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; of is repeated.

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