This is an analysis of the poem A Summer Shower that begins with:
Welcome, rain or tempest
From yon airy powers,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXaa XbXbb aacaa XaXaa XaXaa XXcaa bdadd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101110 011010 111010 101010 1101111101010 111010 00101 100010 10001 110101011101 110010 00111 111110 01101 11110101001 1001010 10001 100011 100101 110101110101 111000 1111 100010 10111 111101001001 100100 01101 101110 00111 001101110101 111011 11111 101010 100110 110101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 149
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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- summary of A Summer Shower;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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