This is an analysis of the poem The Night-Rain that begins with:

Tattered, in ragged raiment of the rain,
The Night arrives. Outside the window there... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababab cXXccc dbdbdb eaeaea fgfgfX cXXhch icicic
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1001010001 0101110101 1111010101 1101010101 100111 1011010101 1101010111 10001000101 11011001000 1101100111 100101 0101000101 1001000101 1101001101 1001010101 1001010001 000101 0101110111 11011101001 1101110100 0111010101 10011000101 111111 0101010101 01011010101 11010100101 10011001111 1001111101 110101 11001001110 1001011111 0100101011000 1011011110 11001000111 0101111 1001011101 1101010101 0101010111 10001000101 1101110101 011101 0111000111
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 249
  • Average number of words per stanza: 44
  • Amount of lines: 42
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; of, with, and are repeated.

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

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