This is an analysis of the poem Prescience that begins with:
The new moon hung in the sky, the sun was low in the west,
And my betrothed and I in the churchyard paused to rest--... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaba ccbc ddXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110010111001 11100110011101 10101101001110 01110111010001 110011110100101 0010011011010101 101011010010110 1011011010111 100101111101 101010110101011 10010101001010 11001010101100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 235
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 58 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, in, tears are repeated.
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