This is an analysis of the poem Rain After A Vaudeville Show that begins with:
The last pose flickered, failed. The screen's dead white
Glared in a sudden flooding of harsh light ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaXXbbccddXXeeffgghihihhaajj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0111010111 1001010011 1001111101 0101011001 1111010110100 10111001010 1011010101 1010110001 1100010111 11110101010 1011010011 0101010001 1011010111 1001111111 1101110011 1011011101 10001010101 0101010111 10010101010 01010011010 11010111001 1011111101 1101011101 1001010101 10110011110 11111111010 1101010101 1101110111 01100010011 1101001101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1466
- Average number of words per stanza: 242
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, on are repeated.
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