This is an analysis of the poem Moonlight North And South that begins with:

Love, we have heard together
The North Sea sing his tune,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababab cccccc dbdbdb XXabab bXXdbd efefef
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111010 011101 1101110 111111 1101010 110001 11000010 110101 0111010 011101 1111010 010101 1011111 111101 1001101 010101 1011111 110101 1101110 111101 1101110 110101 01001010 010101 1101010 1111010 1111100 110001 1101010 111101 0101010 010111 1101110 011101 0111110 111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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 is repeated.

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

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  • summary of Moonlight North And South;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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