Analysis of The Lonely Cloud



There was a gray and lonely cloud.
No other clouds in sight.
He was depressed and never loud.
He felt so lost at night.

The other clouds were not as plain
And gathered for a storm.
He tried to be like them in vain,
But was not in the norm.

The others never helped or shared
Their loud and breezy ways.
He was so dif'rent, no one cared,
But in the coming days

His many tears collected till
Their weight caused them to fall.
The other clouds saw him fulfill
His purpose after all.


Scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH
Poetic Form Traditional rhyme
Quatrain 
Metre 11010101 110101 11010101 111111 01010111 010101 11111101 111001 01010111 110101 11111111 100101 11010101 111111 01011101 110101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 481
Words 107
Sentences 9
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 93
Words per stanza (avg) 24

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Loneliness

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Written on June 22, 2023

Submitted by stevec.24118 on June 22, 2023

Modified by stevec.24118 on June 22, 2023

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