This is an analysis of the poem A Broken Rainbow On The Skies Of May that begins with:

A Broken rainbow on the skies of May,
Touching the dripping roses and low clouds,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abccaXbaBdXXbbdBefggeefeHijjhhiH
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0101110101 1001010111 1011010101 1001000101 0111010101 1001010100 0101001101 0101110101 01010101010 1101010111 10010101001 1101010101 11011101110 01011111010 0101110101 01010101010 0111111101 1101000101 1101010101 0111011111 0101000111 1101000101 0111010111 0111111101 0101010101 1001000111 11010101010 010011101010 1111010101 01011110111 1101111101 0101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1456
  • Average number of words per stanza: 260
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.

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  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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