This is an analysis of the poem Ascension Day that begins with:

Soft cloud, that while the breeze of May
Chants her glad matins in the leafy arch,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab acac adad ecec fgfg hihi haha jkjk lflf fdfdXcici
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11110101 1011000101 11110101001 11011101001 110100011 1011110111 01110011101 1101010101 10111011 1001100101 0101110101 1101100101 11110111 100100110001 1001001010011 1111010101 110110101 1101010111 1111110101 1011010101 011100101 1101010101 1101111101 11001001101 11000101 1101000101 1111010111 0011011101 11010111 1111101101 1111010101 1101010101 11110111 11010101111 1101011101 11110010101 11111101 1011011101 110000101001 1101101111 11111111 1101011001 1111010101 11010100111
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 44
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; we is repeated.

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