This is an analysis of the poem An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow that begins with:
The word goes round Repins,
the murmur goes round Lorenzinis,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaaXb XXcdb aceed bfbaX fdbgc gbeba chgdh XcdhX fXcedXh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011110 010111000 110011101010 0101100101011 110101101011 10101001011111 0100110111101 110100111001 11111001010011 110010101110 1010101111111 011010111010 1011111001 11011101101 1110101101110 11010101000010 11100101011011 0011100100010 1101100111011 111111001011 10111101011 10100001010 11101110111 10110111111 110110101011 010010101011 100101101010 1001100111 1101101001010 111110101111 111010111010 01001011111 010011001010 11101010101 11110101010 110110010010 11011101011 01011101010 1010110101010 0111011111 001011101010 11111100110 1101101101 11111101011 10010010001 11111111010 0100101101111
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 232
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 47
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; in, not, like, him, and, as are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word him at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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