Hyphens come in handy especially in examples like mine, where an adjective is used to describe another adjective, thereby acting as an adverb. Is the descriptor like an adjectival agent?

Is it an abyss both moon’d and waned? What what makes moon so wanful? Is it abyss that is wan moon? What is the right answer to the question in which a hyphen appears? What are more practical than Lovecraftian verses?