This is an analysis of the poem A Lament that begins with:
CLOUDS is under clouds and rain
For there will not come again ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bbcc ddee ddff gghh ccii hhff ddjj kkdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010111 1101101 100101011 1110101 1001101 1001111 1011111 1111101 1011111 1110001 11100101 1110111 1010101 0011001 1011111 0111101 1100101 0011111 1111111 0110111 1011111 0011001 1111101 1111101 010100101 1110101 1110101 1010101 1011101 1010111 111111 1010101 1010101 0110101 1110011 1111111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; no is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word there's is repeated.
The author used the same word percy at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of A Lament;
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