This is an analysis of the poem As If It Was Rapture Of Rains Of Milk that begins with:

As if it was rapture of rains of milk
And all the sweetness of sugar was being hoarded in heaps!...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABXXXXAB XXXAB
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1001100101 110100101101001 111101101 1111000001 11110011 101101111 1001100101 110100101101001 1010011010110111 1010111101001010 111001111001101 1001100101 110100101101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 313
  • Average number of words per stanza: 61
  • Amount of lines: 13
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, i are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word heaps at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of As If It Was Rapture Of Rains Of Milk;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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