This is an analysis of The Moth by Walter de la Mare.
Isled in the midnight air,
Musked with the dark's faint bloom,…
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Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XXaX baba cdcd
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
- Metre: 1000111 1000111 100101101 01110 100111 01001001 0100101 1001 1001001 101111 0100111 0011
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 12
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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