This is an analysis of the poem The Rain Was Ending, And Light that begins with:
The rain was ending, and light
Lifting the leaden skies.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXb XXcd Xdbd efef Xghg cafa aihi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111011 100101 01011011 110011 11010010 0100100 11101110 0100111 11010110 1001001 1101001 0011111 110101 00110101 1100111 1100111 11001001 010111 10110110 0101111 001101110 1001101 11010110 0111101 11010110 11001101 0010110110 1000111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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 is repeated.
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