This is an analysis of the poem Cloudy Day that begins with:
It is windy today. A wall of wind crashes against,
windows clunk against, iron frames...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcaX dccbbXa aceff afXXbg gXdXeg ahdaai ijgkckjdXhi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,7,5,6,6,6,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00100101011001 10101101 1111101 11010101 010100010 001011 1110011010 11100101 1011011 10010 1010011010 10110101 11101100111 101011 11010111 0101011 11000101 0110101 010101 0110010 00110110 100010001 111001 110011110010 001100011 11101001010 11110101 10111101 1010 1111110010 010010101 1111001001 11011110 111110101 1110010 011001 110101111 101101101 1011101111 1011111110 111010011001 1111101011 111110 101011110 111101011 111011101101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 226
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; in, i, can, how, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word in is repeated.
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- summary of Cloudy Day;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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