This is an analysis of the poem The Rain that begins with:
All night the sound had
come back again,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb Xabd ceXf edee ffbd Xede
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011 1101 1011 010101 111011 110010 01001 11000 11001 10010 0110 0111 101010 1011010 1100100 101100 10111 1101 01111 0101 001000100010 1001000100 01 0010100
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 86
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; me is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word something is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).
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- summary of The Rain;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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