This is an analysis of the poem Rain Passes that begins with:
Rain passes, washing the face of the mountain.
Clouds come, the mountain's in a dream. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X X aXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010010010 11010001 111111111 10010010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 43
- Average number of words per stanza: 8
- Amount of lines: 4
- 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.
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