This is an analysis of the poem The Story Of Flying Robert that begins with:
When the rain comes tumbling down
In the country or the town,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbXccde bbedbbbff ccgghhaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,9,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111001 0010101 1010111 1111111 1011101 0010101 10010001 1100 11111010 10101010 10111010 101110110 01101010 11111010 111 001 1110111 10101111 10111011 1110101 1010101 1011111 1010101 1110111 1111111 1001101 1110101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 272
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; it is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines him is repeated).
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