This is an analysis of the poem Moonlight that begins with:
What time the meanest brick and stone
Take on a beauty not their own,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaacc ddbb dXeeXXff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010111 11010111 11010101 10010110 11010101 10010101 11010101 001010001 11110101 01010101 10010101 10110011 11011101 11010101 11110101 11011101 11010100 10010101 010101001 11111101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 238
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- 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 is repeated.
The author used the same word then at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Moonlight;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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