This is an analysis of the poem Rain In Summer that begins with:

How beautiful is the rain!
After the dust and heat,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AbbaA ccbb adeeda ccffaaa fddaccfXa eeeaaa eeeeffdffdee eddaccaaaa ddEegeegaa Eeeecceeeeaaaa ggghhiijgffXj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,6,7,9,6,12,10,10,14,13,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1100001 100111 00111001 00101 1100001 10100101 10101 10101101 0010010101 010101 0111 1111 00101 101010101 010101 01100101 10101 11101 101101 0101 1101 111010101 001001 101 0111101 1010 11011 11101 101001 1000010 110010 001011001 1111 1010101101 1001 001110101 110001 00101 010110101 10010101 01010101 110001 010101 1010101 001101101 1010010101 111101 10101 111101 111 01001001 0101 01010101 11111 00100101 000101 110111 11101 1001111 111111 0101 1101 01001 10010101 101101 0010111 100101 01001 10101001 1101 1101 11110101 11010111 1011101 100101 1001001 1111101 0010101 01110101 11010101 10101010 10111010 1000101 101 0101 11011101 000100101 01001 01010101 0101001001 110101 010101 100100101 010111010101 101000 00101101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 240
  • Average number of words per stanza: 43
  • Amount of lines: 96
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; how, and, from, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, how, the, and, down, from are repeated.

    The author used the same words how, in at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The poet repeated the same word rain at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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