This is an analysis of the poem My House Is Cloudy that begins with:

My House is Cloudy
the entire earth is cloudy. ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aa bcde dX dXe bcd c X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,4,2,3,3,1,1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010 00101010 0101010101100110 1110 001010100010 11110 110111010110100001 111 110101 010101010 001000111111110 1101011110110010 10010101000110101 11010100100101 00111 011101011
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 91
  • Average number of words per stanza: 17
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, of, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines cloudy is repeated).

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  • history of its creation;
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