This is an analysis of the poem The Moon's Massage that begins with:
The Moon looked in at the window,
And smiled as I wrote to you,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa bcdc Xded Xdcd XfXe bfbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01101010 1111101 11101110 0100101 01011110 1111111 11001010 0100111 11001010 0111101 11101010 1100101 01001010 0100101 01101010 0110101 01101110 1101111 01101110 0110100 111111010 1100111 11110110 10101111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, her are repeated.
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