This is an analysis of the poem On The Desert that begins with:
On the desert
A silence from the moon's deepest valley. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdeccXbfbGHHcafedXXbXcGHHXXg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010 0100011010 10110101 0101111 010010 100100110 1101001 1101101010010 10010010 11100101001001 011010 01001001 10110110 11110010100 01100110 001001001 1011011001 100100101 111 1010110010 100110100 11001101100 11001010 10001011 01001001 10110110 11110010100 010000100 0100100011 0001001001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1081
- Average number of words per stanza: 172
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, whispering are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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