This is an analysis of the poem The First Rain that begins with:
The first rain reminds me
Of the rising summer dust....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXaaXXX XXX X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,3,1,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011011 0010101 0110010010101 01001101100 1100111100 100101001 1101 111000110 0110011 0010001010 0101 01000101100110010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 138
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; rain, of are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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