This is an analysis of the poem The Rainy Day that begins with:
Sullen clouds are gathering fast over the black fringe of the
forest....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abBcXdeXXccfdghgaechBcfb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101110011001100 10 111111 01100110111011 0101010101111 101010010101010010 010101001 1101011101 111111100001 111000010101010 1101001010101100 100110101101011 11010010010 10110101010101 110110110101010 01 011011010101010 100010011010101101 10001001110 010110110 111111 01001001000100100 10001010110001001 10101110001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1220
- Average number of words per stanza: 224
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of The Rainy Day;
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