This is an analysis of the poem As One Listens To The Rain that begins with:
Listen to me as one listens to the rain,
not attentive, not distracted,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcdefXcgAhXXgfifXAdhhcfdbgAffbXbgcXAaccXciXegaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 49,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 10011110001 10101010 111110 101011101 010110 0111001 100001 1010010 100001 101001 10011110001 011001111 01101001 0111001 0101110100100 11101011 11111 0110010 10111010 10011110001 111010 1101101 1011111 111111001 111101 111101010 1101110110 110100111 10011110001 010101101 0001100001 000101011 000101011 11001010110 11001111 11001101101 00101011000 10011110001 001101001 1110110011 1111110 00101101 10001101 01001001111 100011010010 010111001 101100101 010100110 1111001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1723
- Average number of words per stanza: 322
- Amount of lines: 49
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; with, and, you, of, your, fingers are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, with, you, it, your are repeated.
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