This is an analysis of the poem The First Night Of Fall And Falling Rain that begins with:
The common rain had come again
Slanting and colorless, pale and anonymous,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdXefegehciahgXbbXdieXababfb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011101 101100110100 101000110 001010001001 01111110101 01010101111011 1 011101010101 0100101001010111 01 10111011010 1110101010 10110110 10110111010011 1001110100 10101011 010101000100100 10 11001100100100 10 10011010101111 10 010101001011011 1010101 1011011 10011101111101 01010101010 0101111 0011101001 010100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1182
- Average number of words per stanza: 189
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word of is repeated.
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