This is an analysis of the poem Moon Fishing that begins with:
When the moon was full they came to the water.
some with pitchforks, some with rakes,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcX dXeaXccX eDXXcbcX bDXecXaX ceXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,8,8,8,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111110010 1011101 101110 1100101 111101001011 10 0101111110 1111010 100101010110 101001 11110101 11111110 1110010110 101001011 10 111010110 010111 1111111111 011100 1101111010110 11101111 101001011 10 1000100101 111111111 1111101 0111110010 11101110 11101111 0101011 1011101 0011001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 230
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; with, some, your, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words some, and are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Moon Fishing;
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