Analysis of Winter Rain
Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
Every valley drinks,
Every dell and hollow;
Where the kind rain sinks and sinks,
Green of Spring will follow.
Yet a lapse of weeks
Buds will burst their edges,
Strip their wool-coats, glue-coats, streaks,
In the woods and hedges;
Weave a bower of love
For birds to meet each other,
Weave a canopy above
Nest and egg and mother.
But for fattening rain
We should have no flowers,
Never a bud or leaf again
But for soaking showers;
Never a mated bird
In the rocking tree-tops,
Never indeed a flock or herd
To graze upon the lea-crops.
Lambs so woolly white,
Sheep the sun-bright leas on,
They could have no grass to bite
But for rain in season.
We should find no moss
In the shadiest places,
Find no waving meadow grass
Pied with broad-eyed daisies:
But miles of barren sand,
With never a son or daughter,
Not a lily on the land,
Or lily on the water.
Scheme | ABAB CDCX EFEF XGXG HIHI JXJX XDXX KFKF |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (63%) |
Metre | 100101 1001010 1011101 111110 10111 111110 1111111 001010 101011 1111110 1010001 101010 111001 111110 10011101 111010 100101 001011 10010111 1101011 11101 101111 1111111 111010 11111 00110 111011 111110 111101 11001110 1010101 1101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 856 |
Words | 160 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 83 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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