Analysis of Before the Rain
Thomas Bailey Aldrich 1836 (Portsmouth) – 1907 (Boston)
E knew it would rain, for all the morn
A spirit on slender ropes of mist
Was lowering its golden buckets down
Into the vapory amethyst.
Of marshes and swamps and dismal fens--
Scooping the dew that lay in the flowers,
Dipping the jewels out of the sea,
To sprinkle them over the land in showers.
We knew it would rain, for the poplars showed
The white of their leaves, the amber grain
Shrunk in the wind--and the lightning now
Is tangled in tremulous skeins of rain!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111101 010110111 1100110101 0101100 110010101 1001110010 100101101 11011001010 111111011 011110101 100100101 1100100111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 474 |
Words | 89 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 368 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 87 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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