This is an analysis of the poem To A Cloud that begins with:
Beautiful cloud! with folds so soft and fair,
Swimming in the pure quiet air!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffggaaffddhh ffbbeeaaggXggggccdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,19,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1001011111 10001101 1101011101 111100111 1111110101 11010101 1001111001 011110111 0111100111 11111101 1111010101 10111101 1101010101 00110101 1111011111 01010101 0101010101 10110111 1011010011 01010101 1111010111 101110101 1111110111 00110111 11011011101 110111001 101010010101 11011111 1111010111 11010101 1101010101 010100101 11001010101 11010111 01110111001 11111111 0111111111 001101111 11011101001 11010001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 541
- Average number of words per stanza: 101
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; on, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words thy, on, and, to are repeated.
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- summary of To A Cloud;
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