This is an analysis of the poem Rains Have Come that begins with:
Dear Mom, send my dad across; the rainy season has come.
Oh, dear daughter, how can I? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBaaBaaBa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111010101011 1110111 11110101011 111110010101011 1110111 110110101011 111110010101011 1110111 1101100101011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 420
- Average number of words per stanza: 78
- Amount of lines: 9
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; dear, has, season, rainy, come are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines come is repeated).
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