This is an analysis of the poem Drizzle that begins with:
Baudelaire: 'The dead, the poor dead, have their bad hours.'
But the dead have no watches, no grief and no hours....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bc Xc bc daXda
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100110111111 1011110111110 111101111100 010110110110 11110110110 1011101111010 110111011111 10100010101010 100110101101 110111111011 1010101011111 0110110111110
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 102
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; dead, no, but, and are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word hour at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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