This is an analysis of the poem My After-Dinner Cloud that begins with:

Some sombre evening, when I sit
And feed in solitude at home,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcD efef gdgD hihi jdjD klkl ldlD caeaXadaD
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 1110111 11010111 011101001 11011101 11111101 11100101 11010101 11110101 110100010 01010100 111111010 01110001 111100101 11010101 110100101 11110101 11010101 11010101 11110111 11110001 11111101 11011101 11010111 01110101 11000101 01000101 11010101 010101001 11000111 10010001 11100101 11110101 11000111 01001101 11010110 11010101 11001101 01010101 01000101 01110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 129
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; i is repeated.

    The author used the same word what at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of My After-Dinner Cloud;
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