This is an analysis of Moonlight by Jacques Tahureau.

The high Midnight was garlanding her head
With many a shining star in shining skies,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaXbbX ccdeed
  • Stanza lengths: 8,6,
  • Metre: 0111110001 01001010101 1001010111 1101010011 101101010 0111000111 1101010011 0100011100 1111001101 1001010001 11011111110 10001011111 1100011101 11111101010
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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