This is an analysis of the poem I Could Not Among The Misty Clouds that begins with:
I could not among the misty clouds
Your unstable and painful image catch,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb cXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010101 1010110101 111110101 101011101 101101111 10111011 1010101001 101010111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 151
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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 and is repeated.
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