Analysis of Oh, Gray And Tender Is The Rain
Lizette Woodworth Reese 1856 (Waverly) – 1935
Oh, gray and tender is the rain,
That drips, drips on the pane!
A hundred things come in the door,
The scent of herbs, the thought of yore.
I see the pool out in the grass,
A bit of broken glass;
The red flags running wet and straight,
Down to the little flapping gate.
Lombardy poplars tall and three,
Across the road I see;
There is no loveliness so plain
As a tall poplar in the rain.
But oh, the hundred things and more,
That come in at the door! --
The smack of mint, old joy, old pain,
Caught in the gray and tender rain.
Scheme | AABB CCDD EEAA BBAA |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11010101 111101 01011001 01110111 11011001 011101 01110101 11010101 11101 010111 111111 10110001 11010101 110101 01111111 10010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 520 |
Words | 108 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 100 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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