This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Viii: If Your Eyes Were Not The Color Of The Moon that begins with:

If your eyes were not the color of the moon,
of a day full [here, interrupted by the baby waking - continued about 26...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbbXX XcaX Xca XXc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,3,3,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 01101010001 001111010101010010011 1010 00110111110 0101010110101101 01011101 101010 11011101 0101110101 11000100101 1110111111 111111110110 1101001 1010011111001 011011101 0111110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 165
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, not, i, you are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word if is repeated.

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  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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