This is an analysis of the poem While Gazing On The Moon's Light that begins with:
While gazing on the moon's light,
A moment from her smile I turn'd, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccdccdefef gagXhhiiiXefef
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,14,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101011 01000111 0111111 01110101 111 111 11010101 111 111 11110101 11001111 11010101 11111101 11111111 01110110 11110101 01010110 11010101 111 011 110010101 111 1101 011111110 11111101 110010101 11111011 11000111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 428
- Average number of words per stanza: 79
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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.
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