This is an analysis of the poem Decreed that begins with:

Into all lives some rain must fall,
Into all eyes some tear-drops start,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xabacdcd befeXgagXagagfggg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,17,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 00111111 00111111 101111010 1111001101 001111011 00111101 10010111 010100101 101111110 101111101 10010101 11000101101 01111111 101100101 100100101 10010101 00111101 101111010 100100101 1100101010 00111111 11111101 100100111 10110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 304
  • Average number of words per stanza: 54
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; fall is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word into is repeated.

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  • summary of Decreed;
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  • history of its creation;
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