This is an analysis of the poem Oh, Gray And Tender Is The Rain that begins with:
Oh, gray and tender is the rain,
That drips, drips on the pane!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeaaXbbaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110001 111101 01011001 01010101 11011001 010101 01110111 10010101 10010111 010111 101100011 10110001 11010111 110101 01011111 10011101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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