This is an analysis of the poem Xviii: The Rain It Streams On Stone And Hillock that begins with:
The rain, it streams on stone and hillock,
The boot clings to the clay.... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabba XcXXc XdXbd Xeffe ggeeg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010111110 011001 11011111 11111101 111101 011111010 110111 01011111 11011100 111111 100101110 110101 11010101 01010101 110101 011111110 1101001 11110111 11010101 011111 111101010 111101 11110111 11011001 0101001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 171
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, for are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
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