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

The rain of a night and a day and a night
Stops at the light...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccdXbbXdbbeeeeffggXXbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 26,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01001101101 1101 001110101 11101 01100110101 0101 010100111 1111 0110100101 01011 101010101 1111 111111101 10101 010100111 1101 0011101111 1011 11001001011 1111 0110101001 1111 111101001001 100 1011110001 10101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 791
  • Average number of words per stanza: 155
  • Amount of lines: 26
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • summary of After Rain;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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