This is an analysis of the poem Wet Casements that begins with:

When Eduard Raban, coming along the passage, walked into the
open doorway, he saw that it was raining. It was not raining much....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXa XbXXXcbXdeeffXeeXd aeXcX Xd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,18,5,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101010010101000 10111110110011101 101010100010 010010000111010 010101010101 11100101010100 111010010110111 10010110100 011011110100010 011001010111 1010111111110 101010101011100 01 1011000101000001 111010101110 1110000001100100 111011111011 10101111101001 101011011010010 101010101110 1100111011010101 110101110 111110010111 01011110111010 010101111111011 01010010100111011 111011 111011010011
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 371
  • Average number of words per stanza: 64
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; their, of, and, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words their, of, i are repeated.

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  • summary of Wet Casements;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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