Analysis of Ode to a rainy day



This overcast day
With wet air hanging heavy
Foreboding I find

What mysteries lurk
Behind dark, shape shifting clouds?
Thoughts trouble my mind

I stare at the sky
Rife with anticipation
Of impending storm

The darkening sky
Warns of a stark end in one
Or another form

Sounding ominous
The whistling wind picks up pace
Rustling leaves on trees

Then comes the rain
In torrents from the heavens
Pouring without cease

Yet I feel not bleak
Any gloom in my heart, instead
Joy has supplanted

I feel more alive
Than on any sunny day
I took for granted


Scheme AXB XXB CDE CDE XXX XXX XXF XAF
Poetic Form
Metre 1101 1111010 01011 11001 0111101 11011 11101 110010 10101 01001 1101101 10101 10100 0101111 10111 1101 0101010 10011 11111 10101101 11010 11101 1110101 11110
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 549
Words 106
Sentences 2
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 55
Words per stanza (avg) 12

About this poem

This poem brings back the memory of a rainy day, how it starts out with an overcast sky, pregnant with possibilities, as they say and how it unfolds so interestingly

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Written on June 15, 2010

Submitted by BlissFullyAware on February 24, 2023

Modified on March 23, 2023

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