This is an analysis of the poem A Shower In War-Time that begins with:
Rain, rain, sweet warm rain,
On the wood and on the plain!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AABCDBEEFGEHCD ccifijkkjj AABCDBEEFGEHCD ieaaaieacclflmmff AAbalbAbdlddhhb AAlXlXnncc AAll lll aaa hhh FFF bbb ccc ddd ghh bbb FFF nnn oppqqacoccccbrcahcccbbcbdbdrdrclhlhhcbaabXXXbmbbmmaXrrb ccc ccc ddd jjj HhH ddd Xbb fff ccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,10,14,17,15,10,4,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,55,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11111 1011101 11111 10111011 0100111011 11100101 100110 101010 010100111 01100100 1101010 1011100101 1010110001 1100111 001001 111011 1110110 111111 111001110 1011101 11011101 1000101 10100101 010001001 11111 1011101 11111 10111011 0100111011 11100101 100110 101010 010100111 01100100 1101010 1011100101 1010110001 1100111 11001110 1101011010 10011011010 11011110011 1001011011 1101010010 11111001110 11100101 1001010110 11110100101 1011111 01110111 01010111 111101101 01010111 1010100100101 1100011101 11111 1011101 11111 1011101 1010001 1000101 11101 1010101 1011101 0001001 110001 10010111 1010111 00101011 1110101 11101 1011101 11101 01111110 1110111 1010101 1110111 01000101 01010101 1010101 11111 1011101 11110101 01111111 11110011 01111010 11011101 111111001 11011011 01110110 11110101 01010001 010101010 10110111 11110001 010010101 110100101 101011001 11010001 11111101 100010111 01100101 11111101 01011011 01100101 11010100 11010101 11010110 11010101 11110100 100010101 10110111 11110001 010010101 110110111 01010111 010010101 1001111111 0110010111 111111 0101100101 0101010101 01011101010 1001010101 1111010011 1101010101 11011111001 1011111101 010101 0111010101 1100101 1111101101 11000100010 011111 1011111101 11001011101 1011110111 0101001001 010101 0101010101 0111000101 110101110101 0101110101 1011001 110111 10010101001 1111111111 010101111101 011101 0101100101 010111 01010001111 1101110001 111111111101 11010001 1011111101 1101000101 010101 11010110010 110101110010 0101100100 1001010101 1101 1111010111 1101011111 01110000101 0101010101 110101010101 1001101011000 1001001 010101 0101001110101 11110111 11011101 01010011 11010101 110111000 11011101 01110001 11010111 010101001 11110101 11111101 01111111 1110101 1011111 1110101 11111111 111111011 11011011 100011011 01011101 11110101 10110111 01010001 10110101 11101101 011100101 01110111 01011101 10100101 01011101 11011100 01110101 01010101 01011111 10111111 01011111 11001011 01010111 111101001 11111110 11110101 11010101 11011111 11101101 111100101 11011011 11011101 10010100 11111111 11111101 11010001 10010111 01010001 01010101 11011111 10110111 111100101 101110011 11110011 110100101 11010100 11000111 110100111 11010101 11011111 11110101 10011110 10110111 11011101 11110111 10011001 11111111 101111100 11111111 11110011
- Amount of stanzas: 44
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 201
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 290
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; rain, and, filling, that, sighing, more, in, jack, by, thou, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, sighed, or, the are repeated.
The author used the same words rain, i, and, do at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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