This is an analysis of the poem Clouds Of The Autumn Night that begins with:

Clouds of the autumn night,
Under the hunter's moon,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababa cXcXc bdbeb fefef dgdgd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100101 100101 101101 101111 111101 100111 001100 100101 111111 1000111 000111 1001001 100101 110111 100111 100111 110101 101111 101101 101101 000111 110111 1101011 111101 110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 142
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 25
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; and is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word there is repeated.

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