This is an analysis of the poem A Cloud Of Darkness Has Appeared that begins with:

A cloud of darkness has appeared
from the mountains and the forest:...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbdXcefdghiajabkdajhadllXleajjdididaejcffgbhjXcdkXccdeddbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 60,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01010101 00101010 10101010 10101010 11011101 1010001 1010111 10111011 1110111 01011101 11101010 11110101 11101010 1111111 10101011 1110111 1010111 1010111 10100110 01000011 1011101 1110101 0011111 11111101 111111 1000101 111110010 1111011 111010001 101010101 0010101 110111 011101 1111010 0101011 110101110 110001010 11111101 11010111 01001101 10010001 01010001 1011111 11011101 1110101 1111101 10101110 11001100 10010101 1010111 10001101 11011101 11111001 1111111 01010101 00110101 101101010 110101010 1010101 1111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1994
  • Average number of words per stanza: 359
  • Amount of lines: 60
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; of is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word two is repeated.

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  • summary of A Cloud Of Darkness Has Appeared;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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