This is an analysis of To A Cloud by William Cullen Bryant.
Beautiful cloud! with folds so soft and fair,
Swimming in the pure quiet air!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffggaaffddhh ffbbeeaaggXggggccdd
- Stanza lengths: 22,19,
- 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
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 40
Repeated words/phrases
on, and
Anaphora
thy, on, and, to
