This is an analysis of the poem The Rain that begins with:
This is the rhyme of the rain on the roof,
Tears, all tears, slow falling tears—...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdeeee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0001001101 1111101 0000111001 11101111 110100101 11101011 111110101 11101111 11011111 11111111 1010110101 10101101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 474
- Average number of words per stanza: 90
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; tears, and, who are repeated.
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