This is an analysis of the poem The Cruel Moon that begins with:
The cruel Moon hangs out of reach
Up above the shadowy beech. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccccddbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011101 10101001 01010101 01111101 11011111 11010101 11010111 01110011 11110111 1011101 11110101 1111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 412
- Average number of words per stanza: 80
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; she is repeated.
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