Analysis of If All Were Rain And Never Sun
Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
If all were rain and never sun,
No bow could span the hill;
If all were sun and never rain,
There’d be no rainbow still.
| Scheme | ABCB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Ballad stanza Quatrain Simple 4-line |
| Metre | 11010101 111101 11010101 11111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 130 |
| Words | 27 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 91 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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