This is an analysis of the poem Moonshiners that begins with:
How long we had hid there and listened,
Where the trees let in winks o' the sun,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXcXcbdXdababefefbgXgcdcdhhhhhbhbchchXfbXeieihihibababjbjXbabehehkbkbeaXakhkhkhkh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 84,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111110 101101101 1110010110 001001101 110110110 111111001 1011111010 111011001 0110110110 01111111 110010110 101011011 0100011110 01011101 1011011010 01111001 1010110110 11011111 1010010010 11011111 011010010 01111001 010111010 11011001 1111011010 111110011 1110111110 01111011 101111010 110010101 0101110110 01111011 101110110 01001010 100011110 11111001 010111010 11101011 111011010 01111111 1110011010 11011011 1011010110 11011001 110110010 01011111 111111010 11011101 111010110 11011101 1110011010 11111001 110010110 11101011 1100110010 001011001 010011010 111101111 1010011010 01101011 110010010 11011011 110011110 1111001 1110110110 111111110 0111011110 11111011 1011011110 11111001 110111010 11101111 1111011010 101011001 101111010 01111111 011110010 01101101 1011101110 01001111 1111011010 10001001 0011010110 11101111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 3107
- Average number of words per stanza: 626
- Amount of lines: 84
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; wuz, an', we, it, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, an', they are repeated.
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- summary of Moonshiners;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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