This is an analysis of the poem Rain At Night that begins with:

North of Solitary Mountain Temple
and west of Chia Pavilion...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXaXaabXaba cXac
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010101010 11010010 01010010 101101 10101110 1000111 01111110 11111 110110 01010111 110101 101000101 110111 111011001 0010111 111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 244
  • Average number of words per stanza: 41
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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.

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

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

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  • summary of Rain At Night;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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