This is an analysis of the poem After A Night Of Rain that begins with:

The rain made ruin of the rose and frayed
The lily into tatters: now the Morn... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabbXccdadX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 0111000111 0100010101 1001010101 1001010111 0100101101 0101010101 0101111101 011100101110 1111010001 1001010101 0100010101 0101100111 1001010111 1111010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 616
  • Average number of words per stanza: 109
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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 the is repeated.

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