This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Lxvii: On Passing Over A Dreary Tract that begins with:
Swift fleet the billowy clouds along the sky,
Earth seems to shudder at the storm aghast;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcbcbdedeff
- 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: 11010010101 1101010101 1101010111 1011000101 101110010101 010011000101 1001010101 0101010001 1011010001 1110011101 11110101001 1001000101 1001010101 1111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 608
- Average number of words per stanza: 114
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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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More information about poems by Charlotte Smith
- Analysis of Sonnet I
- Analysis of Sonnet Xxii. By The Same. To Solitude.
- Analysis of Sonnet Lxiii: The Gossamer