This is an analysis of the poem After The Storm that begins with:

The air is full of after-thunder freshness,
And everything rejoices and revives....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abba cdcd ceXe XfXfXbbab
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 01010101010 1101100101 00111001010 0111010101 01010101010 1111010111 11010111010 0101010101 11010100110 1111110001 01001101101 0101100101 01000101011 1101010101 01000111010 1101010101 00110101010 1101011101 11010100111 0111010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 166
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; of, and are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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