This is an analysis of the poem The Dark One Turned To Gaze The Moonlike Face... that begins with:

The dark one turned to gaze the moonlike face of the jewel among beauties,
Their eyes met, their desolation ended, the lord pleaded...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABCbXbbXABC XXXXABC XaXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,7,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011101011100100110 11111010100110 110101001101 1001011010010011 11110 0101 1110100110 010111011101111 011101011100100110 11111010100110 110101001101 1101001001101101 1111111101 1001111110 101000100011 011101011100100110 11111010100110 110101001101 10010010101000 1100110 0101111010101100101 10010010010011001
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 383
  • Average number of words per stanza: 71
  • Amount of lines: 23
  • Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my is repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word him at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of The Dark One Turned To Gaze The Moonlike Face...;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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