Analysis of Rain
Millions of massive rain-drops
Have fallen all around;
They have danced on the house-tops,
They have hidden in the ground.
They were liquid like musicians
With anything for keys,
Beating tunes upon the windows,
Keeping time upon the trees.
| Scheme | ABAB XCXC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 1011011 110101 1111011 1110001 10101010 11011 10101010 1010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 240 |
| Words | 41 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 17, 2023
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