This is an analysis of the poem Cloud-Break that begins with:
With a turn of his magical rod,
That extended and suddenly shone,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcdefef agXgcbcbXbbbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,8,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 001001001 101011001 001001011 11101 001001001 1100111 101011001 101001 1001001001 11001001 101111010 1100101 01011001 11011001 1010010100 111101 011001001 01001101 101001001 101101011 1001011 01101101 101001011 101101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 192
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of Cloud-Break;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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