This is an analysis of the poem `oh, If That Rainbow Up There!' that begins with:
Oh, if that rainbow up there,
Spanning the sky past the hill, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbabAcAC DEDEEfef ghghdhdh XfXfhdhdXAcACDEDE
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011111 1001101 1001001 1001011 1011111 1101011 1011001 1111101 1101101 1011001 1111011 1011011 1011011 1001001 1001101 00111001 1101001 1111001 1011101 1001011 0110101 11010001 1101101 1101001 110101 1101101 1101101 1011001 1101001 1001111 1101111 1001111 1011111 1101011 1011001 1111101 1101101 1011001 1111011 1011011
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 251
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words here, climb, or are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines go is repeated).
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- summary of `oh, If That Rainbow Up There!';
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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