This is an analysis of the poem The Moon, How Definite Its Orb! (Fragment) that begins with:
The Moon, how definite its orb!
Yet gaze again, and with a steady gaze--... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: XXabccbbXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01110001 1101100101 110111001 0001101010010 1101111001 1101010001 111101110 010101011 0111111110100010101 010101101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 463
- Average number of words per stanza: 79
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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