This is an analysis of the poem A Mood that begins with:
AS some great cloud upon a mountain's breast,
Hanging for ever, shutteth out the sun,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcadXeXfabXgdhiiXgaejgXcekgdXaclbcXXmcjhXaXefaXbnoafXhhcbiXnpqboXiXokiXcecbqXiragmXfenlrXrchdaXnjpbj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 101,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111010101 1011010101 0101010001 1100110111 11011111101 1 0101010101 0101111101 1011011101 1111000111 1101011101 1 1101000101 11011101001 1101010101 1111001101 1101100101 1 11010011101 1101111101 1101010001 0101110101 11011101001 1 1101010001 11111110101 0101011111 0111001111 1101110101 1 1111010101 1001110111 1001010100 1111110101 0101010111 1 1111010 1101 0101010011 1101011101 1111010101 1 01111101001 1111010111 01011100101 01011111010 0101110001 1 111111011 1101001111 0111010111 0101010011 01010100110 1 1111010111 1101010101 1111110101 1100111101 1101000101 1 1100010011 1101011101 111101001110 0101001111 1100011111 1 1101010101 0101000 0101 1111010011 01110010101 1 11011101001 1111010111 1101110101 10101010001 11010101010 1 1101011011 010111001011 0101011111 0101011101 1111010101 1 11010100010 1101110101 1111111101 1101111100 1101110101 1 11011111001 1010010101 0101010101 1111111111 1101010101 1 1111010111 0101110111 0100010101 1101010101 0101100101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 3739
- Average number of words per stanza: 686
- Amount of lines: 101
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, and, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
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- summary of A Mood;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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