This is an analysis of the poem Ode To The Moon that begins with:

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Mother of light! how fairly dost thou go ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bcbcbbccdddd X caacecefgffg X accaaeehedhdd X cacaddeddeeee a eXeicijcXj a hkhkXaahhhh X aXaeechchcc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,12,1,12,1,13,1,13,1,10,1,11,1,11,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1 1001110111 1011010101 1111000101 1001110111 1101010101 1011000111 1101010101 1100110111 0111011101 1011 010101 1011000101 1 1111011111 01110101001 11011111001 010111 1011110001 1011010101 1101011101 0111110101 1001011101 1011011111 010110001 101101011 1 11110010000 1011011101 1101010111 0101011101 0011111111 1111011001 1101010111 1111010111 011111 1011011111 1001011101 01001011101 1111011011 1 0111110111 0111000101 111111101 10010100111 01110100101 1111110111 1111010011 1101010011 1101111101 1111001 1101110101 101111 1100111101 1 111101111 0001010101 1101111101 110111010010 1111011001 11111111110 1101010011 110111 1101011111 1001110101 1 1111101111 1101000100 1011001101 1001010100 0111011110 0100011101 1101111100 01011100011 1111001 1101011001 1111010101 1 1100011101 1101010101 10011110011 1011010011 10110110001 111111101 1101010111 1111010101 1111011001 1111010101 1101101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 252
  • Average number of words per stanza: 44
  • Amount of lines: 95
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; and, why, with, thy are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words their, that, still are repeated.

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