This is an analysis of the poem Then Storms Come that begins with:
Truth has less meaning.
Until it affects....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXAbcc Dede ecefc DED DED ebcbecX EDXXEDf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,5,3,3,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110 01001 11110 1110 001 0 111 0111001 1111 1010101 01110101 011100010 01100101 11 10010 111 01 111 111 01 111 101110101 101110 0010 0101110 101 01011 1000 11101 111 0101001 11101 111 01010101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 90
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 20 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; then, storms, come are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words it's, then, truth are repeated.
The author used the same word then at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines come is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word come at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Then Storms Come;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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