This is an analysis of the poem The Light O' The Moon that begins with:
[How different people and different animals look upon the moon: showing that each creature finds in it his own mood and disposition]
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a X bcXc aded fbbb X fgbg hhih bbbbb bbhh X hdad jaja diii cgkg X cfXf laba amjm X admd hbbb cjbj adhd X X Hmlm cbXb bnXn hkXk jjHj XXgkfkiebe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,4,4,4,1,4,4,5,4,1,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,1,1,4,4,4,4,4,10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001011001001010110111010001111010 1110010 01010101 111101 11111101 111101 11111101 111101 11110101 110101 11011101 110101 11011101 101010 10001010 01010101 110101 1111011 1100101 01110101 11011101 011011101 11011101 01110001 00110001 01111111 01011101 01111111 11010101 11011101 10110101 11111111 1001110 01011101 011101 01011101 010101 11010101 111111 11010101 100101 01010101 010101 01010101 010101 01111111 1011101 01010101 1010001 1001110 01110001 111111 11010100 010111 11110101 010101 111100111 110101 11010101 010101 11000111 011101 1011110 0101011 110001 1001110 110101 1101011 110101 1101011 11011 110101001 100111 10111111 100101 1101110 110111 0111011 110111 11010 101011010 11010100 1101001 100100101 100101 11011111 110100 11011111 110101 11011111 110111 111011010 11101 1111010 110111 1111010 110101 1101011 10100011 11010100 110101 10010010 01010101 110101 01010101 110101 11110111 010101 11010101 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 33
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 109
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 117
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, years, moon, her, i, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, come, some, they, their are repeated.
The author used the same words the, come at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines tree is repeated).
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- summary of The Light O' The Moon;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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