This is an analysis of the poem Very Lovely that begins with:
WOULDN'T it be lovely if the rain came down
Till the water was quite high over all the town? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccddXaaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 10001000111 101011110101 00111010101 111010100101 10001000111 111110110101 01101010101 111010010101 00101010101 11111010101 011010111110 100010010001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 186
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we is repeated.
The author used the same word wouldn't at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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