This is an analysis of the poem Reason Has Moons that begins with:
Reason has moons, but moons not hers,
Lie mirror'd on the sea, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab Xbb Xa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,3,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111110 110101 01000100 110101 10111110 1110001 1000111 1111011 1111001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 280
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 11
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Reason Has Moons;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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