This is an analysis of the poem Moonlight Bends Over The Black Silence that begins with:
Moonlight bends over the black silence,
Making it bloom to wild-flowers of sound...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbbXabX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111100110 1001011001 1101111 01110110 10001010001 01011110001 110101100010 100111010 110111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 373
- Average number of words per stanza: 64
- Amount of lines: 9
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; to is repeated.
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