This is an analysis of the poem The Cloud Confines that begins with:
The day is dark and the night
To him that would search their heart;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabbbaCDCX eeeedddeCDCX affabbbaCDCX gbbgXhhgCDCX dhhXaaXdcDCX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,12,12,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101101 0111111 1101101 1101001 101001 0111111 110101 1101011 111111 1001101 1101001 1111110 0101011 1111001 1111101 1111001 101110 1101111 1101101 1111111 111111 1001101 1101001 1111110 100101 1101111 1100101 1100101 111001 1111011 1111001 10100101 111111 1001101 1101001 1111110 100101 1101111 1101101 0111001 1101101 1110101 1100111 10101011 111111 1001101 1101001 1111110 0111101 1000101 1101011 0110000 110101 1010101 1100110 1101011 111111 1001101 1101001 1111110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 458
- Average number of words per stanza: 69
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- 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; we, or, whether, they, of, thy, our are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words or, and, thy, our are repeated.
The author used the same words the, what at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word day at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase we connects the lines.
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