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
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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