Analysis of After the Rain
Thomas Bailey Aldrich 1836 (Portsmouth) – 1907 (Boston)
THE rain has ceased, and in my room
The sunshine pours an airy flood;
And on the church's dizzy vane
The ancient cross is bathed in blood.
From out the dripping ivy leaves,
Antiquely carven, gray and high,
A dormer, facing westward, looks
Upon the village like an eye.
And now it glimmers in the sun,
A globe of gold, a disk, a speck;
And in the belfry sits a dove
With purple ripples on her neck.
Scheme | ABCBDEFEGHIH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01110011 0111101 01010101 01011101 11010101 11101 01010101 01010111 01110001 01110101 00010101 11010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 405 |
Words | 79 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 306 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 77 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 17, 2023
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