This is an analysis of the poem The Mother Moon that begins with:
THE moon upon the wide sea
Placidly looks down, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbcaXabdXd bacaXaXaXdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101011 10011 100011 10101 111010 111101 1111010 10010111 1101111 010111 11101010 01111 1010101 111101 1010101 1010101 11010010 111101 110110 110111 1101110 110101 1000101 10111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 337
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of The Mother Moon;
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