This is an analysis of the poem That The Rain Rains On that begins with:
I stand by the grave the old-time grave
In the drift of the falling rain ; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aa aX ab X c dX dc ac X X cX Xc ab X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,2,2,1,1,2,2,2,1,1,2,2,2,1,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010111 00100101 111101101 00010101 1101100111 1101111 10111101010 100110111 11111101 00111011 1110110101 10110101 110111101 1100011 10110101101 0110110111 11111101 1110101 110011101 0111100 1011100111 0100101 10111101010 101110111
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 58
- Average number of words per stanza: 12
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; happy, lilac, sweet are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word when is repeated.
The author used the same word in at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase happy connects the lines.
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