Analysis of When The Sun Come After Rain

Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)



WHEN the sun comes after rain
And the bird is in the blue,
The girls go down the lane
Two by two.

When the sun comes after shadow
And the singing of the showers,
The girls go up the meadow,
Fair as flowers.

When the eve comes dusky red
And the moon succeeds the sun,
The girls go home to bed
One by one.

And when life draws to its even
And the day of man is past,
They shall all go home to heaven,
Home at last.


Scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF XGFG
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 1011101 0011001 011101 111 1011101 00101010 011101 1110 101111 0010101 011111 111 01111110 0011111 11111110 111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 404
Words 90
Sentences 5
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 79
Words per stanza (avg) 22
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. more…

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