This is an analysis of the poem Distant Rainfall that begins with:
Like mourning women veiled to the feet
Tall slender rainstorms walk slowly against gray cloud along the...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXXXXXXXbab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101001 110111100111010 11 01001101010 1101010010101 0101 111111110 110100101011100 01 1001010010 1001001001010101 1010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 457
- Average number of words per stanza: 78
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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