Analysis of Beloved, Let Us Once More Praise The Rain
Conrad Potter Aiken 1889 (Savannah, Georgia) – 1973 (Savannah, Georgia)
Beloved, let us once more praise the rain.
Let us discover some new alphabet,
For this, the often praised; and be ourselves,
The rain, the chickweed, and the burdock leaf,
The green-white privet flower, the spotted stone,
And all that welcomes the rain; the sparrow too,—
Who watches with a hard eye from seclusion,
Beneath the elm-tree bough, till rain is done.
There is an oriole who, upside down,
Hangs at his nest, and flicks an orange wing,—
Under a tree as dead and still as lead;
There is a single leaf, in all this heaven
Of leaves, which rain has loosened from its twig:
The stem breaks, and it falls, but it is caught
Upon a sister leaf, and thus she hangs;
There is an acorn cup, beside a mushroom
Which catches three drops from the stooping cloud.
The timid bee goes back to the hive; the fly
Under the broad leaf of the hollyhock
Perpends stupid with cold; the raindark snail
Surveys the wet world from a watery stone...
And still the syllables of water whisper:
The wheel of cloud whirs slowly: while we wait
In the dark room; and in your heart I find
One silver raindrop,—on a hawthorn leaf,—
Orion in a cobweb, and the World.
Scheme | ABCDEFGGHIJGKLMNOPQRESTUDV |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011111101 110101110 11010101001 01010011 0111100101 01110010101 11010111010 0101111111 111101111 1111011101 1001110111 11010101110 1111110111 0110111111 0101010111 11110101010 1101110101 01011110101 100111010 11011011 01011101001 01010011010 0111110111 0011001111 11011011 010001001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,155 |
Words | 216 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 26 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 884 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 210 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 29, 2023
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