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
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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Lizette Woodworth Reese

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