This is an analysis of the poem Drought that begins with:
For rain, for rain the parched lands cry,
Reproachful to the cloudless sky.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb aabb ccbb ddbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110111 10000101 011101110 010011110 11110101 11010101 010111110 010101010 11000101 11011111 111101010 010111010 11010101 10010101 110111010 010101110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 153
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; rest is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, a are repeated.
The author used the same word for at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Drought;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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