This is an analysis of the poem A Walk On A Moonlit Night that begins with:

If I walk on a moonlit night,
My shadow walks beside me, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aBC DEC aXC adC aXC XfC XgC fgC aBCXDEC
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01110111 1111011 111 11101001 11111 111 0111100 101010 111 111000111011 010101 111 0101001011 10010010 111 11101 1010 111 10101101101 1110 111 100101101100 11110111 111 0110110111 1111011 111 11101001 11111 111
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 71
  • Average number of words per stanza: 14
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, my are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word life at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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