Analysis of April Rain
Mathilde Blind 1841 (Mannheim) – 1896 (London)
The April rain, the April rain,
Comes slanting down in fitful showers,
Then from the furrow shoots the grain,
And banks are fledged with nestling flowers;
And in grey shaw and woodland bowers
The cuckoo through the April rain
Calls once again.
The April sun, the April sun,
Glints through the rain in fitful splendour,
And in grey shaw and woodland dun
The little leaves spring forth and tender
Their infant hands, yet weak and slender,
For warmth towards the April sun,
One after one.
And between shower and shine hath birth
The rainbow's evanescent glory;
Heaven's light that breaks on mists of earth!
Frail symbol of our human story,
It flowers through showers where, looming hoary,
The rain-clouds flash with April mirth,
Like Life on earth.
Scheme | ABABBAX CDCDDCC EDEDDEE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01010101 110101010 11010101 011111010 00110110 0110101 1101 01010101 11010101 0011011 010111010 110111010 11010101 1101 001100111 0101010 101111111 1101101010 11011011010 01111101 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 753 |
Words | 129 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 7, 7 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 199 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 26, 2023
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