Analysis of The Woman in the Moon
The Woman in the Moon
Once, I was Gibson's girl
round cheeked and rosy
placed in high altitude
as a lover's ecstasy.
At times blushing or laughing
I primped in the screened solitude
of an old-world charm.
I was the brilliant star
before new-world know-how
exposed me in penny dreadfuls
as a fading light.
Now, I hide behind my screen
fearing stargazers
who come to gape at a former beauty
cratered with a curious stain.
Scheme | X XABA XBX XXAX XXAX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010001 111101 11010 10110 1010100 1110110 1100110 11111 110101 011111 0110101 10101 1110111 1010 1111101010 10101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 429 |
Words | 85 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 3, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 67 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
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The woman in the moon was once seen as a beautiful, romantic image. Contemporary science sees it as a planetary item.
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