This is an analysis of the poem Rain that begins with:
Since I lived a stranger in the City of Hsün-yang
Hour by hour bitter rain has poured....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbXcXXaXXcb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1110100010011 1011010111 11110111 010111111 011101011101 0111110101 0111110101 1011110101 101110101 1011011 01011011101 0010111000101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 518
- Average number of words per stanza: 104
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, in are repeated.
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