This is an analysis of the poem Cloudland that begins with:

A faery land is this that far and high
And all suffused with tints of pearl and rose,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabba cdecde
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 0101001111 1101010111 0101011111 1011101111 111111101 0111000101 0101010101 0111010101 0111010111 0101110011 0101010101 1111001101 101011101 1101110011
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 287
  • Average number of words per stanza: 52
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.

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