This is an analysis of the poem Huge Vapours Brood Above The Clifted Shore that begins with:
Huge vapours brood above the clifted shore,
Night o'er the ocean settles, dark and mute,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcXcXcdcdee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101010101 11001010111 1101010001 0101010101 0101111101 0100010111 0101111101 1001011010010 1011110101 1101110101 1101011101 110010101111 01010101001 1100101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 632
- Average number of words per stanza: 110
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- Analysis of Sonnet I
