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

Rain, midnight rain, nothing but the wild rain
On this bleak hut, and solitude, and me ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbXacacXaXcXXaXcX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1111101011 1011110111 0100011111 1101011101 1101101110 1111000101 1101101101 1111111111 01001110101 1010100001 1001110100 1001010101 1011001101 1001011111 1111111011 1101010101 01000110011 1001011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 755
  • Average number of words per stanza: 140
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; rain, and, i are repeated.

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