This is an analysis of the poem A March Voluntary (Wind And Cloud) that begins with:
Winds that cavern heaven and the clouds
And canyon with cerulean blue,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccbddefefggaaX X hhcabdbcbbXbebecXc X bahbhbagggiXjjff X kkXkfaXccffllggmkaamkk n aoaaoffffccndnXpnnXpgbbgahhhaahXgkgkknnjajfafXjjaaddd n dggddaaeeeebebbb X aaaaaffccfcddddiiiddaadiXddX X gbgbeeeigiiiggiiiniaaqnXirrccicsisfhhXeeX X ggmmgaaggacgXhhhffh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,1,18,1,16,1,22,1,53,1,16,1,28,1,41,1,23,1,44,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010101 11001001 1111010111 111101 1001000101 1001010111 1101001101 1111010001 111101 1101111111 111100 0101010001 100111 101100111 001111 1010101101 110101111 111100100 1 1111 00111 1100100111 11110110101 111101 100101 11011111 011111 011101001 011101011 111101 0101001 1101001 11011110101 100101 1100101 0110 110111110111 1 1101010101 101010011101 1001010101 011101 1001010011 0110011100 0111000111 0100000111 10110101 011101 1101010101 11000111100 11010111 010010101 110101 0101100101 1 01001001001 0101110111 0111011110 110110001 0111111101 1001 11001000 1101011101011 011111 01010101001 0111001001 1111110 10010010 110111 110111 1101001010010 010001 0100111 010101 100101001010 1001001100 11010100101 1 0101010001 1001000101 11001011111 0101010001 0101000101 1001110101 11010100 10111001 01111101 1100100101 011101 011101 01000110101 1101010101 0101110100 1111110011 11010101 0100011011 0011110110 11010101001 01001011101 0100011101 01011101001 11000011110 11010110111 01110111 11111101 0101010001 01000110101 11010101001 1111010101 010011111010 1111010101 1101110111 1100101 11010111001 1111110101 01110101011 1001110111 110111 10011101 1101110001 1011001111 1011010111 111111 01110001 11110011 110101 0100110111 010101 1011101101 101111 1001001101 1 10010010101 110101 0111011111 11010001001 110101001 01010111 1001110001 10011010101 0110001101 1101010101 11111111001 01010011 01010101 0111110011 010111101 0111010101 1 1011111111 110011 11011101 10011010101 1110001101 101101 111101001 111011111 0101101101 0111010111 0100001101 101111 010111 11110010101 0101100111 1101101 11010101001 0111010111 110111 01010101 0101001 0111001 010101 1111010001 11010101010 11010101 011101 0111010111 1 01010101 011111 0111010101 1001101 010101 01111111 11111101 1100111101 010101 0101110101 01010101 010110111 1111010001 110111 11011111001 110101 111101 1001110101 1101011101 0100010101 01000111111 0101010100 01010100001 111000111010 0101011111 1101000101 1001010101 110100 01110011 1001010111 0101001 110111 0101110101 1000101 110101 1111011101 0101010101 1011100 0101110101 1101010111 1100010101 1 01010111 01011111 10011010010 100100010010 01111101 1101010011 010101 01110010101 10010101 1101 0110010101 100111 1101010011100 010111 100101 1100011001 0100110101 100001 1101 011101 11000101 1001 01001010111 1 111010101 110111110 100111101 10010101 1100101110 100110111 1100101 110101 100101 00101001 011 10100101 1110101 1101101 1101 110111 010100111 1001 1111000111 1011001 0101010101 1101011111 1101 1100101 010010 10111 010111 10111111 1010111 00111 010101 01010100101 1101011101 0101010101 1101010100 110101 110111 111101 1101111101 0101 01110001001 101101 010011011001 01001000101
- Amount of stanzas: 19
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 542
- Average number of words per stanza: 96
- Amount of lines: 288
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; and, its, with, of, to, their, each, five are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, with, the, each, or are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase five connects the lines.
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