This is an analysis of The Moon's Massage by Radclyffe Hall.

The Moon looked in at the window,
And smiled as I wrote to you,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXa bcdc Xded Xdcd XfXe bfbX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 01101010 1111101 11101110 0100101 01011110 1111111 11001010 0100111 11001010 0111101 11101010 1100101 01001010 0100101 01101010 0110101 01101110 1101111 01101110 0110100 111111010 1100111 11110110 10101111
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 6
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

and, my

Anaphora

and, the, her