This is an analysis of the poem Roaming Cloud that begins with:
I am like a remnant of a cloud of autumn
uselessly roaming in the sky, O my sun ever-glorious! ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXab bXXX aXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010001010 10001000111110100 1111110110 1011011 1111110101001 00011100011 1101010001 100101001 101010111001010 101101011010111 11111001001 101000100110 00100100010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 201
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; this, and, it, in are repeated.
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