This is an analysis of the poem The Lover And The Moon that begins with:
A LOVER whom duty called over the wave,
With himself communed: 'Will my love be true...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaccdXdaaddXXXeeeeddddfggfccXXhiihccdXfdXfdXccdccdffjj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 56,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01011011001 00110011101 01001111011 1101100011 1111101111 11010111 110110101 10100100101 1110011111 1101001101 11011011011 1111100101 1010100101 111101010 1110111111 1011101111 11100110101 1110110111 01001101011 11001001001 1011111101 11110101 1011100111 0100100101 1110100101 011100101 011100101 1010011101 110011101 110110101 110110111 11101111110 011110111 011100101 1011101111 111011111 1010110101 11101011001 111100101 11111110 11110100101 1111110101 10101110 1111100111 001111101 110110111 101010101 1011111111 110011101 110011101 101110111 111110101 1101110101 0100110101 1011110111 01011001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2423
- Average number of words per stanza: 488
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; and, in, his, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.
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