This is an analysis of the poem The Rose Of Midnight that begins with:
The moon is now an opening flower,
The sky a cliff of blue. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb ccdc Xece adcd cfff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101110010 010101 01010101 010001 01000111 010101 01000101 100101 01000101 100101 01010111 110101 010101010 010101 11110101 110111 01010101 100101 111101001 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 20
- 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; her, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, her, and are repeated.
The author used the same word her at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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