This is an analysis of the poem The Rainbow that begins with:
Watch the white dawn gleam,
To the thunder of hidden guns.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaabccdd efeefggdd hehheiidd jijjiccdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111 00100101 110111 1111101 1010111 11001 1001001 11101100111001 1110110101001 011101 1100111 1100101 00111111 011101 10101 110101 100100111001 1110110111001 1010101 110001 1011101 1011011 00100101 0111 100111 1011101001101 1101101011001 111111 010011 110111 110101 111101 11011 1011101 111111110101 11110110111001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 306
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word still at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Rainbow;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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