This is an analysis of the poem Sunshine Always Follows Rain that begins with:
It washed the faint and anxious grasses,
Through all this splendid latitude ; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a ba bc dc d e fe fg dgX a aa ag dg d b h b hg dgX X ib ig dgX X db db dbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,2,2,1,1,2,2,3,1,2,2,2,1,1,1,1,2,3,1,2,2,3,1,2,2,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010111010 11010101 1111011010 11010101 11010101 11110101 11010101 11111101 010101110 1010101 010101010 01010101 111010110 11011101 100101110 11111101 010101010 100100101 10111010 1011101 111101110 0010101 111101010 1111101 10001110 11010110 110101010 11011101 111101010 1111101 10101010 11111101 11101100 1111111 11101010 1111101 10111010 1010101 11111010 11111101 101111100 1110101 11111011 1110101 10101010 00100101 111000010 11111101
- Amount of stanzas: 27
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 61
- Average number of words per stanza: 11
- Amount of lines: 49
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, falling are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they, she are repeated.
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- summary of Sunshine Always Follows Rain;
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