This is an analysis of the poem After The Winter Rain that begins with:

After the winter rain,
Sing robin! -sing, swallow! ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab cXcd eded fgfg Xabab
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100101 110110 101001 1110010 111111 011110 101101 101110 111101 11010 110101 01010 100111 101110 0101001 110010 1001001 101110 111101 110010
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 101
  • Average number of words per stanza: 16
  • Amount of lines: 21
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; and is repeated.

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