This is an analysis of the poem Cloudy Sky that begins with:
The Moon she is a pretty girl who lives up in the stars
And that old cloud he's a great old man who loves her from afar...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaabbbCc XXXCc XXXccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,5,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01100101111001 111110111110001 110001 110111111101010 11101001111010 111010111010 1010101111111 1111100111110111 11111111111110 0111011011101010 111010101010 1010101111111 11111001111010111 1101101011111010 110101011101010 111010101010 11010101111111 1111100111110111 11110111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 351
- Average number of words per stanza: 78
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; as, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines afar, thunder, fallin', blowin', me are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word me at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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