This is an analysis of the poem Look Down, Fair Moon that begins with:
LOOK down, fair moon, and bathe this scene;
Pour softly down night's nimbus floods, on faces ghastly, swollen,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101 110111011101010 10 10111101111 11110010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 240
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 5
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; on is repeated.
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