This is an analysis of the poem Water-Bailing that begins with:

Not a drop of rain for this dry heat!
Come, girls, let's go bail water. ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcXXbaac
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101011011 1111110 1111011001111 111011001010 110011100010 110100110 011111101010 11001010111 1111010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 429
  • Average number of words per stanza: 77
  • Amount of lines: 9
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • summary of Water-Bailing;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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