This is an analysis of The Cloud by Charles Harpur.
One summer morn, out of the sea-waves wild,
A speck-like Cloud, the season’s fated child,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccbb ddee ffccgg aahhggaaee aabbiiggjjjXb aaggkkccffll llggddccaammnnXaacccaa
- Stanza lengths: 8,4,6,10,13,12,22,
- Metre: 1101100111 0111010101 1101010101 1101111111 1011010101 1101001111 11010001001 1111011101 1111111101 1101011101 0101010101 0100010101 0101101101 11011001001 1100011111 1011010111 10011010101 1011000101 0111001101 10001110101 1011011101 1101010001 1111011101 11110011111 11001010111 011110100111 1101110111 11100100101 1111111101 10101010101 1110000101 1001100101 1101010001 1101000101 0111011101 1011010101 10010101111 1111000011 0111010110 100110010101 11010111 1001010001 1101110111 11010011101 1110100001 1011001101 1101110101 1101010101 0101000101 1111110101 1011111101 11000100101 0111010001 1111010111 0100000111 01101011101 0101110001 1101010101 010011101001 1101010101 0101010001 0101000101 11001010101 11001101010 01110100010 1001000101 0111011101 1101010101 0101010111 1001011001 1101001001 0101001101 0111010101 1001010111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 74
Repeated words/phrases
to, and, her, of
Anaphora
the, and
