This is an analysis of the poem You Come To Me Quiet As Rain Not Yet Fallen that begins with:

You come to me quiet as rain not yet fallen
Afraid of how you might fail yourself your...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXabcdead cXcXfXbc XgdfdXeg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110110111110 0101111101 1101010110 0100011101 100111 111101111 111011101 10111110 10011 0111011101 1001001111 11110111 11110011110 10010111100 010111010100 110101110010 1010010 0001011101100111 1101110100 111110111 10110111001 01101100 001101100 111010011101 10101011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 324
  • Average number of words per stanza: 64
  • Amount of lines: 25
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, to are repeated.

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

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  • summary of You Come To Me Quiet As Rain Not Yet Fallen;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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