This is an analysis of the poem The Rain Comes Sobbing To The Door that begins with:
The night grows dark, and weird, and cold; and thick drops patter on the pane;
There comes a wailing from the sea; the wind is weary of the rain.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccXC ddeeccXC bbeeeccXC ddffccXC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,9,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0111111111110101 1101000101010001 0111010111011101 0101110101011101 11100101001010101 1101010001110001 11010100 01110001 11010100111010101 1101111111110011 1111000111010111 1111111101010100 1101010101011111 1101010001110001 11010100 01110001 01010100101110101 1111010101110001 1111010101010111 111100101 11010111 1111110111110101 1101010001110001 11010100 01110001 1101110111110111 1111010111111101 1101011101001101 1111011101010111 1111111101000101 1101010001110001 11010100 01110001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 506
- Average number of words per stanza: 93
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, as, while, and, when, though are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word door at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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