This is an analysis of the poem The Moonlit Room that begins with:

I know a room that's dark in daytime hours;
No sunbeams light it, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababbbbbcdcdaeXe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011101110 11010 10010111010 11010 1001010101 01100 1001010001 10101 0011111111 11010 1011110111 01010 1101011101 10010 1011110111 00110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 540
  • Average number of words per stanza: 99
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • 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; and is repeated.

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