This is an analysis of the poem The Cloud Messenger - Part 01 that begins with:

A certain yaksha who had been negligent in the execution of his own duties,
on account of a curse from his master which was to be endured for a...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcde fgXh iaajk dlfb bXjmn goga XXj ejXpk lmcm pliil abho iqin dbgkg icneX Xiib bbia ehlc biie Xbke pjdkc aeeb Xaaeb ifake bribb iiXmg acim libo ghire piabk gplm ipeja bpag bpieb qgpoXlbgg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,5,4,5,4,3,5,4,5,4,4,5,5,4,4,4,4,4,5,4,5,5,5,5,4,4,5,5,4,5,4,5,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0101011010000101000110 10100100101100011011 1110010101010001010100 010100001000110011010 00100100111110010 1101010000101110110 01011011110111101 100101001010100101 0100011001001001 1000100001101011110 1000100001010101000101 1011010110010010100 0101010011111101110 10010101 1010101111101010010 001000101100101000111 0010101001010111010 001011000110010101 100001010100010000000101 0100101101110100010 1010101001010001010010 01101101110110101010 110001000 011111010101110101 1100110110101011000 010101010101101111 110 1101001111010010011 11111010110010110000 11101000110001011 11010011101110101010 10101001010101011 1110111000100110100 11001010101001001000 0110001 0110100010101000100101 1110001010111101101100 100010010010110110011 10010010 11001101001010111000 010011111001010111 10001001001111001000 10111100101011010 1000111011111 11100001001101011110 01001010111101101001 1001010010011001111101 10111111011111110 1110001010110100100 1011110010101001 1110010001001110100 11100010100110 10101010101001101010 10110011011101001 011101101010101101 0111011011010001011 01010101001100 1101101000010111000 1010000101001110010110 0110110110100100010 0111111001001110010 100 100101100110101100100 10111101110011100 10101001010101010100 1 10010010111010111 100101001111001001 1010110100110010010 1001010010101011010 101011011011101010 10010010111010001101 010101011101011111 100101011110100111 10110010101000101101 10111011010010101010 110010001000101110010 10011001001101 110101111010101110 11011110011100101 11011001010100101 0100101010110 101011110001110100 1011101010100101011 11010100100010101110 10110010011111011011 10101010011 10101100100111110 10111111101101010 1000011101010100110010 10110101111001 10110110100010010110 110110101001000011 10100100100100111 011000101100101100010 001010100111010 1111111100101110 1010111010001110101 101010110100111011 10001101111111011 1010100111001 1010101010101110010 0100011100011010010010 101010010101011100 0101001111001101000 1011001 111101001010100010 1101010011001100 101110011000101010100 001010111101010010110 010 110110101001010101 11101101110011111 010101011001001001010 100100110110 11010001001010010011 0100101010100100110 1010101011111111 100001001011011010 110110011011010011 10001001100010110010 111011111101010000 1010100100010011100 101110101001010 0101001011001101000100 1101110100100100100 1110010110101101 001000101000100011001 011011111101010101 100101110001110111111 01011000100110010010 11010100010100101011 1110 11101001111111000 101001111011000100 10100101111011001010 1101011101010011 10010010101010101 1100101011111001101 01010110111011011010 101010010101100111 010010110001010110101 01010010101110101 10110011001010010110010 110010101011010110 10110100100111001 11001011010 101101011001011101 11010100101011101 01011010110101111 100010011011110 11101001110010111 1011010110100111101 001010100101000100101 0111011011
  • Amount of stanzas: 35
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 308
  • Average number of words per stanza: 54
  • Amount of lines: 155
  • Average number of symbols per line: 69 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 12
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, of, to, cloud, its, on, you, as, that, at, their are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, watching are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines a, the, whose are repeated).

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  • summary of The Cloud Messenger - Part 01;
  • central theme;
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