This is an analysis of the poem Looking East that begins with:
LITTLE white clouds, why are you flying
Over the sky so blue and cold? ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab acac adad bebe afaf gege hbhb bibi ejej eeee kckcXadad
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101111110 10011111 11111110 101110111 101111110 100110111 101111110 10110111 111011010 10111101 11110010110 11101001 100101110 10111101 100101110 101100101 110111010 101101111 1011010010 11100001011 1111011010 10101011 111101110 010101101 1111111010 111100111 1111110010 111101101 11101011110 10011101 101111010 110111111 1111111110 110101101 1101101110 110101101 1111011110 111100111 11101111010 110111101 01001001010 110100111 10101101010 110010010 101111010 1001010101 1011010110 10100101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 158
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; i, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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