This is an analysis of the poem Moonrise that begins with:

Grub-white mulberries redden among leaves.
I'll go out and sit in white like they do,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXX abc dca aXa eff afd deg Xgb cefXbbd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110010011 1111101111 1010011111 0101010010 1100101010 1011110110 0101010101 0100110010 1101101110 0111010111 1001111010 11001101010 1010010010 1110110011 1010110110 1111010101 1111111110 1110011100 1100011100 1111101010 1000010001 11001001100 1100111101 0101010011 1001010100 0101001111 0101110011 1111010101 1101001010 1101101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; white is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word death is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).

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  • summary of Moonrise;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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