This is an analysis of the poem Bread, Hashish And Moon that begins with:
When the moon is born in the east,
And the white rooftops drift asleep ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacdcceeXfgchXciddfXecdeajhkXceGblGekXdlddhaceX dhiiaeageecda GbXecmXGheajeemX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 48,13,16,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101001 10111101 100111 1011111101 0101 10011010100101 11010 11111100 1100 11101101 1111001 10111 010010 010010 010001101001 1101101 1110110 111001010 11010 1010101 1011011110 10 1101001 10001011110 1111111001 1100101100111 1100 011010010 110101 110110111 110010 100111011001 011 10101 1100111001 011 1101011 11 1100 1101010 11111 1010101 11101 10101010 11010010 1111010111 010010 1010110110 111011 01101 0101010110 110 0101111 101011 101010 01010101 10011 1101010 101 1110111100 111100101 011 10101 1110 010010101 11101 010110110 10101 011 0010010 11101110101 01001001001 111010100 00101 01010 111101011010 01001011100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 771
- Average number of words per stanza: 137
- Amount of lines: 77
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; and, of, to, in, for, who, its are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, o, in, its are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines heaven, moon are repeated).
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