Analysis of Souls And Rain-Drops
Sidney Lanier 1842 (Macon) – 1881 (Lynn)
Light rain-drops fall and wrinkle the sea,
Then vanish, and die utterly.
One would not know that rain-drops fell
If the round sea-wrinkles did not tell.
So souls come down and wrinkle life
And vanish in the flesh-sea strife.
One might not know that souls had place
Were't not for the wrinkles in life's face.
| Scheme | AABB CCDD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 111101001 11001100 11111111 101110111 11110101 01000111 11111111 0111010011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 309 |
| Words | 57 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 121 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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