This is an analysis of the poem The Dark Day that begins with:

A three-day-long rain from the east--
an terminable talking, talking ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabcXXcbXaXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01111001 110001010 01100101010 101101 101110 11011010 01101100101 100110010 10011010101 1010001010 10011001 101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 439
  • Average number of words per stanza: 68
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; patter, talking, backward are repeated.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase talking connects the lines.

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  • summary of The Dark Day;
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