This is an analysis of the poem The Cloud's Swan-Song that begins with:
There is a parable in the pathless cloud,
There's prophecy in heaven,--they did not lie,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd Xefe cgXg hghg iici cjcj kdkd Xibi iece Xbab fafX fgfg bcbc elel egeg eaea mnmn lclc gggg ococ pgbg blpl bmbm dndnXbbbbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10010000101 11000101011 011011001 010101110101 0101010101 1101010011 1111010101 011111110001 1111111110 1011111111 1111011111 110111011101 111100101001 01111100001 10111110011 110011110011 1111010011 1010010111 1111100101 110101010101 1101011101 0101001101 0111010011 111111001001 1101011101 11110111011 1111110101 0101011001101 1101110011 01000011001 01111001001 100111010111 1110000110 11111100101 1101111110 010101111111 0111110101 01011100111 1001110101 110001101101 10111101010 01010010011 1101011001 0101001011101 11111111011 1011011111 1101110001 10111101110001 0101000101 01110001101 1001010101 101101010101 010110101001 0111100001 0101011111 100101010101 1000110101 0101000101 0101010101 100111110111 0101000101 1011010101 1101110101 010101011101 1101110101 01011101001 1111100101 111111111111 1101110001 10110011110 1001001101 110101000010 0101011101 1101010001 1101010111 110100110101 1101010101 0011111101 0110010100 101111010100 0101010001 010101110010 0100111101 1111011101110 11110100100 1111000111 1111010111 001100100101 1111001000 110010010111 01001100100 111101010101 1111110001 11001111101 1001100101 101101110111 1111011101 111111000010 0111111111 0111111111110 1101000101 0101000111 1101010111 1111010100 1111010010101
- Amount of stanzas: 26
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 182
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 105
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; one, and, my, to, of, in, i, it, on are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, thou, to are repeated.
The author used the same words for, i, it at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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