This is an analysis of the poem A Damascene Moon that begins with:
Green Tunisia, I have come to you as a lover
On my brow, a rose and a book...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbbcdXeaddadXXeacXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110111011010 11101101 11101001010010 1101011 0100110111 10001111 00101001010 11000101001 001010011010 1111011 110000101001 101101000100 001010111110 10101010111001 00101001110 101011010110 0010010001100 1000111000101 1010110001 11011001001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 882
- Average number of words per stanza: 143
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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