This is an analysis of the poem The Phases Of The Moon that begins with:
An old man cocked his car upon a bridge;
He and his friend, their faces to the South,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdefgcfhijcfkklcjkcXmnkcfjjogXflpfmhfkjkccpfgfbkhgfiflnqfjjjcocjpkkedekljkeigjfjeokjcelffflcekljajcngffjpheokcljnlcckcfdegklXjikcjjmhkefkhflqcXok
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 147,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111010101 1101110001 11001011101 1100011101 11101011111 01010011101 0101111101 011111 100011101 1111010001 111011110010 1011110101 11110010001 11001001010 0101000101 00110110100 1111010101 01011101001 1100010010111 1111011101 111101 101111 1101110111 1101011011 0101110101 0111111101 11111010101 10011010101001 11101010101 1111111100 011101000111 1111110101 1001011010001 01101111010 10111111110 01010111010 111101101101 0011000101 1100010101 01110101101 11010100101 11011011100 01110100111 1001111001 01010001010 1100010111 101010101 1000011001 0101010001 1111110111 0101110101 0111110111 00110111110 10110001110 1001000111 01010100010 01000101001 011101100111 0101011100 1001101110101 01010110111 101101010010 1101010001 1011111101 0101001 0111001 100100111010 1001111110 0101010 11111111110 011111101 1011010111 11010010111 1101100100 01011 100010111 010101010011 0100110000010 11010111001 1001011110001 1110111100 11011011011 0101010001 1101010011 1011001101 11010110100 100110101 01010101001 110101111 0111000101 0101011001 10011010100001 0101000100 1001010101 01001101101 1011011100 0111010001 0101010101 0100001 010101 0101110001 10001110101101 1101011101 010101011 1001010111 100110110111 01011010100 111001 011101 1011010111 1000111111111 11101011001 1001010101 11010101101 10111100010 100100110100 1111110001 0101010001 10010101001 11110101 0111 1001101101101 10111111010 0111001111 011001011101 10011111110110 01011111110 1001110101 01010011010 1011010101 0100010101 010111111101 11001110001 0101011101 11000111110 1101011101 11101110110 1111110100 1111010111 1011111111 1001110001 1111011101 11011101010 1111011111 101100110010 1101100101 01001010111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 6279
- Average number of words per stanza: 1156
- Amount of lines: 147
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; their, and, twenty, sing, body, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word too is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines soul, it are repeated).
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- summary of The Phases Of The Moon;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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