Analysis of Sunshine Always Follows Rain
Robert Kirkland Kernighan 1854 (Canada) – 1926
It washed the faint and anxious grasses,
Through all this splendid latitude ;
And trees, and flowers and ferns in masses
Sent up a hymn of gratitude.
They felt the cooling breezes blow ;
They felt no more the sultry pain ;
And well the pretty creatures know
That sunshine always follows rain.
The wide Dominion naught could move her,
Move her like the thunder wet ;
From Halifax to far Vancouver
The gladsome cry is sounding yet.
Somewhere now the showers are falling
On mountain side or grassy plain ;
And in the trees the birds are calling,
' Sunshine always follows rain.'
The welcome thunder led the waters,
Sparkling o'er the thirsty lands ;
Nature laughed, and all her daughters
Gladly clapped their fevered hands !
So we '11 see the white wheat flowing
From the thrashers once again ;
And we '11 trust the future, knowing
Sunshine always follows rain.
Girlie, with the face so pallid,
Why weep in summer days like this ?
Your face is sweeter than a ballad
And purer than an angel's kiss ;
Thy tears are falling, falling, falling
Who has filled your heart with pain?
Hear the joyful crickets calling,
' Sunshine always follows rain.'
Why so gloomy and downhearted?
Wake up ! man, and grieve no more !
She and you in anger parted,
And I know your heart is sore.
She, herself, I know is fretting ;
She will come to you again ;
All your griefs and fears forgetting
' Sunshine always follows rain.'
For to-day we sat and sorrowed,
And our hearts were all forlorn ;
But our griefs and fears were borrowed ;
Let us wait to-morrow morn.
Then the sun in glory splendid
Will his chariot mount again,
All our heartaches will be ended
' Sunshine always follows rain.'
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110101010 1111010 0101001010 1101110 11010101 11110101 01010101 111101 010101110 1010101 11011010 0111101 11010110 11011101 000101110 11101 010101010 10100101 10101010 1011101 11101110 101101 01101010 11101 10101110 11010111 111101010 0101111 111101010 1111111 10101010 11101 111001 1110111 10101010 0111111 10111110 1111101 11101010 11101 1111101 01010101 11010101 1111101 10101010 11100101 11011110 11101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,670 |
Words | 294 |
Sentences | 17 |
Stanzas | 27 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 1, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 2, 3, 1, 2, 2, 3 |
Lines Amount | 48 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 48 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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