This is an analysis of the poem The Anchoret that begins with:
I saw thy soul stand in the moon
Last night, the live-long night--...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccb deaae cfddf cXccX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111001 110111 010010011 110101001 11011 1001011 010101 110100111 01110001 10101 110101101 110101 100101001 11010101 11101 11010111 110001 11110101 11110101 11110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 151
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; thy is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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