This is an analysis of the poem A Wet Season that begins with:
The rain is fierce, it flogs the earth,
And man's in danger.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcded fgfgehXh cXcXXcXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010101 11010 11110111 11010 01010101 01010 11100101 11010 01010101 101010 00010011 00010 111110111 11110 11011111 00010 01110101 01100 010101101 11010 011101110 01010 10010101 1011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 214
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of A Wet Season;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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