This is an analysis of the poem Saint Cloud that begins with:
Soft spread the southern sumer night
Her veil of darksome blue; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abac cbcc dbXc cbcc ebec abac abac dbdc fbfc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 010101 11010101 010011 01010101 110101 10000101 110111 01111101 010101 01010110 110011 0101001 010101 11011101 010011 11010101 110101 110010011 010011 110111101 111101 11010111 010111 11010011 010101 11011101 010111 11010101 010101 11110101 110111 110101101 1111011 11010111 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word cloud at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Saint Cloud;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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