This is an analysis of the poem Bkii:Ix Stop Weeping that begins with:

The rain doesn’t fall from the clouds forever
on the sodden fields, and capricious storm-winds...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXa XbbX bXcb bXXb cbXb XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0111001010 10101101011 111100100 1011010110 1011011111 101101001011 1000100101 101110110 11110100101 01011011100 110010110 1101010111 11011111010 1100101000 1001010010 101010110 11101110010 11110101010 110010111 100101010 00101101110 00011011010 10101111 0101111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 170
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.

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  • summary of Bkii:Ix Stop Weeping;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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