This is an analysis of the poem The Rains that begins with:
The river rises
and the rains keep coming. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacdaXXefgdhifh eihjkbaXhkgkbijk adaXjaaaaeeheieehh dcbadgbdhaakgXcclel
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,16,18,19,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010 101110 1101 0111 01011 01111 011101 101110 101001 10011111 11011 101010 1100101 01110 001101 111111 0011 1101010 1111 10110101 1111111 010110 101 011110 11110101 1101011 0101 10111111 1101100 111110 10011 101 110101 1101 000110 101011 111010 101 0110 1101 101010 011001 011001 110111 10110 00010 100110 0111001 1111 011 1101 0111 010110 0111 011100 1011 01100110 11110 11101 00110 01011 100111011 010101 11001 11111 00111 110101 1111 11101011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 403
- Average number of words per stanza: 78
- Amount of lines: 69
- Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines world is repeated).
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- summary of The Rains;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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