This is an analysis of the poem Under The Moon that begins with:
I HAVE no happiness in dreaming of Brycelinde,
Nor Avalon the grass-green hollow, nor Joyous Isle,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaaXbccbdeXdfeefdggd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111000100100 1101011101101 1111011111101 1101111010101 1111110010101 1101110011101 1011010100111 10010110110101 110101111111 010111110101 0111011101100 1111011111011011 101101101100111 110110111111111 11010010101101 1101110111101 0101011001001 00101110101101 01010110110011 100111000101001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1136
- Average number of words per stanza: 222
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; nor, of, and, or are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words nor, and are repeated.
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