Clouds And Waves by Rabindranath Tagore: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Clouds And Waves that begins with:

Mother, the folk who live up in the clouds call out to me-
"We play from the time we wake till the day ends....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXXbXXXacXXaaXXXdXXXaXbdcb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 27,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10011110011101 11001111011 110010111001010 1110111011011 11010001001111 1001110010100010 1010010111110110111 01100 1111101 11101011110 110011101 11101011111110 0011 01110011101 110101111111011 11110 11101110110 11110001001110 11111100101010100 11101011111100101 11110110 111111 111010111 100011100011 111111111101110 10 111001011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1390
  • Average number of words per stanza: 265
  • Amount of lines: 27
  • Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 10

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we, to, play, and, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words we, i are repeated.

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  • summary of Clouds And Waves;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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