This is an analysis of the poem An Evening Of Rain that begins with:
An eye had wandered, to another’s beloved, her leg.
When, carelessly, her sari lifted just a little -...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaX abXXX XXX Xb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,3,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110010001001 1100010101010 110111010010101010001 11101100010111 01010011111101 11110100100 1111001011110 1110011111 10100110100101 101111111101 10010110101001001 01010100101010 01001010100101100010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 195
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; there, t, wasn, why are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word wasn is repeated.
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