This is an analysis of the poem The Cloud that begins with:
I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers,
From the seas and the streams;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabaccdcefcf gdddahfh cijiaakaea aXXbXadaXj ejdjcclcdlmliadaia cekeXimiXglgjg fiaiclalXckc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,8,10,10,18,14,12,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11110101010 001101 111110111 01101 01111001110 0111001 110111101 11100101 110100101 11001110 1101101001 11111010 1101101001 1111101 110111101 111001001 01101001110 101101 001010010010 0101111 10111001010 0100101 1101001011 00100101 1001101101 1001101 01011101011 0101101 11101101011 11001001 01011001001 1010110 110101101 1010111 110100101 1111111 1101011011 00100101 111111001101 01001101 101010111 00101001 01101111101 1110101 11010011010 110101 1100101111 1011101 10100100011 1100101 11100101111 01101011 111010111 1010101 11100101111 10110111 11001101111 11100111 1101100101 101001001 001011101111 101011001 010100111 100101 11111101 0100100 001011111 01011011 101000111011 0010101 01100101101 101111001 1101001110 1010001 11101001011 1111101 11001101001 001001001 10111001111 1101101 11001111100 11001001 101001101001 101110001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 477
- Average number of words per stanza: 87
- Amount of lines: 84
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; i, and, of, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, over, the, i are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Cloud;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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