This is an analysis of The Cloud And The Mountain by Radclyffe Hall.

A little white Cloud loved the Mountain,
She hung in the sky all day,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abccb Xadda Xeaae Xaffa Xedde
  • Stanza lengths: 5,5,5,5,5,
  • Metre: 010111010 1100111 110100101 0101011001 0110111 010110110 1100101 110111101 010100101 1101111 101001010 1100101 110100101 010110101 1110101 111001010 1111111 111100101 0111100111 1100101 111101110 1100101 011110100 111111111 0110111
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 25

Repeated words/phrases

and, come

Anaphora

the, and