This is an analysis of the poem And The Rains Descended And The Floods Came that begins with:

NOW the far waves roll nearer and more near,
The wind's awake, the pitiless wind's awake,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcc dcdcee cfcfeX agagcc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1011110111 01010100101 0101011111 1111010101 0100011111 1011010101 1111010101 11111100111 1101011111 1111011111 1111011101 01011100111 1011000111 1101110101 1101011111 1101010101 1001110001 10110111010 1101111101 1111110110 0101110101 1101111101 1111010001 1101111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 263
  • Average number of words per stanza: 52
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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

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

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