This is an analysis of the poem Moon Fairies that begins with:

THE moon, a circle of gold,
O'er the crowded housetops rolled,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbacXcaadddadXaaeeeeeeffffXgXghheeaaXaaaiiggggbbddagagaajjddXdeeccajaj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 72,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0101001 100101001 1101101 110111 011111 10100101 0111010 1100111 010111 00100101 101101 11001101 101001 000101 1011111 1101101 0101110 0101110 1000001 100101 1010101 0011101 011111 1100101 1011101 110111 110111 1100101 010111 110101 100101 1100111 10101101 010101 010101 110101 100101 110101 1001100 100101 1011111 1011101 011101 00100101 1001001 1100101 011101 1101111 0111001 0010101 011001 010101 1001001 1101110 110101 1110010 1011101 1101001 111101 110111 1100111 110101 1000111 1100101 100101 100101 110111 11101 10111 10001 11101 111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2052
  • Average number of words per stanza: 394
  • Amount of lines: 72
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, out are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, and, out are repeated.

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  • summary of Moon Fairies;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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