This is an analysis of the poem Rainfall that begins with:
From out the west, where darkling storm-clouds float,
The 'waking wind pipes soft its rising note. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa XX bb cc bb dd ee ff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101110111 0101110101 01011000101 0111010100 1101010101 0101010111 0101010101 0111010101 0110110111 0101011101 0101000101 0101010101 1101010001 0111110101 1101110111 0111000101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 89
- Average number of words per stanza: 15
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; with, and are repeated.
The author used the same word from at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Rainfall;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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