This is an analysis of the poem The New Moon that begins with:
When, as the garish day is done,
Heaven burns with the descended sun,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccb ddeffe fffggf hhiffi ccebbe jjakka
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 101000101 110101 01110101 01110111 111111 11011101 010101001 1101001 11000101 110010101 110001 01011101 10111101 010100 11010011 11110111 0101001 01011001 01011101 110101 11000111 01011101 101101 11000101 10110101 110101 11000101 110001101 010101 11110101 01010101 0101010 11110101 110001101 1111010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 195
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The New Moon;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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