This is an analysis of the poem Good Old Moon that begins with:
When I was a boy I called the moon a
white plate of jade, sometimes it looked...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabXabXaXabaXbXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110111010 11010101 1011010001 110110010 101001111010 111010011 1111101010 10101101 1011010101 11111001011 00101000111 01001111010 110111011 10101001011 01010110101000 100101100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 648
- Average number of words per stanza: 130
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Good Old Moon;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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