This is an analysis of the poem On A Wet Day that begins with:
As I walked thinking through a little grove,
Some girls that gathered flowers came passing me,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXXbcXXcXXXXX cXXddXXXeffXcc edeaabbagghehe ii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,14,14,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111010101 11110101101 1010111001000 10101010101010100 1011100 10011010101 0101010101 1111110 101110101001000 10111 110010110 1011110 100101010 10111011100100 111101111100 101111101001 11011100 1011101011100 100110110101 11110100011 10111100 10111010 10110010100110 110011101110 100111 110011 101111011100 1111111101 1101011101 1101010001 1100101010110 1101100100111 1101 110110 110111 1101010011 1111011111 110011 0101111111 01010110101 11110100011 1101111111 1101011101 1111010011 1101011111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 510
- Average number of words per stanza: 84
- Amount of lines: 45
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; that, o, it, and, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word each is repeated.
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- summary of On A Wet Day;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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