This is an analysis of the poem What The Moon Saw that begins with:
Two statesmen met by moonlight.
Their ease was partly feigned.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbXacaddbd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101111 111101 1101010 110001 010011000 110101 1001010 110101 11010111 111101 01010101 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 362
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of What The Moon Saw;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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