This is an analysis of the poem Rain that begins with:
What can the brown earth do,
Drenched and dripping through... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbc aaddc eeccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 110111 11101 001110101 001 110101 110111 10111 111010101 001 110101 1111010 100010 1101010101 1110 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 135
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Rain;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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