This is an analysis of the poem The Moon that begins with:
The moon has a face like the clock in the hall;
She shines on thieves on the garden wall, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXb ccdd eebb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01101101001 111110101 11111101 11001001001 010110101 0101101001 01110111 11001101001 11001101001 1001001001 110110111 11001001101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 172
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 12
- 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, on, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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