This is an analysis of the poem Late Light that begins with:

Rain filled the streets
once a year, rising almost ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcaadefegahbfebeiibcddXjbdichkdXelXXimge X bbeecXnlodXgbjbcabebeoccmphimcidXojclmcigbdpe X XhqomddkidjgiXpmbebbdcbmdbclefecqdjcbabedhfgedbbhncedcgceec
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 41,1,45,1,59,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101 1011011 011101 100111 01010101 111101 1011101 111100 010101 101000001 110101 111101 001111 101011 101011 11101 01111 00110010 1011101 100101001 0101010 110011 1001011 10101001 1101110 011011 1001011 101110 1101001 110100 11111 1010111 11111 010111 100111 101110 010010 1010010 111011 101111 001010 1 001101 0010100101 0101010 11011101 1001011 001011 101101 0010101 11001010 001001 101000100 01000101 101011 111010 01101 0101010 1110110 111101 0100011 110101 010111 010101 1010101 0101001 0111101 011111 0111011 101110 01010101 010101001 01110 1101111 100110 11111 111100010 010011010 1111101 1101010 1000101 10110 0011101 011010 001101 1011111 0111101 1 01011100 111010101 0011000110 1110011001 1111011 111111 1111111 000111 1101110 10101101 11001010 1101111 1111110 111010 111100001 011110 1111010 1110011 011111 10001011 01011 11010111 101011 11011 001001 00101011 0110110 011101 001011010 011101 110101010 1011101 10101100 1110101 01110010 0010111 111110 11010101 0011111 0110101 01101110 1111101 1111101 1011011 10101101 11011110 001101 110010100 010101001 0011101 111111110 110111 11011 1010101 101001 01011010 1000111 110101 1100100
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 826
  • Average number of words per stanza: 150
  • Amount of lines: 147
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, had are repeated.

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  • summary of Late Light;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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