Analysis of Rain
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)
The rain is raining all around,
It falls on field and tree,
It rains on the umbrellas here,
And on the ships at sea.
| Scheme | ABCB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Ballad stanza Quatrain Simple 4-line |
| Metre | 01110101 111101 11100101 010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 121 |
| Words | 26 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 89 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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