Analysis of The Rain



Rain on the green grass,
And rain on the tree,
And rain on the house top,
But not on me!


Scheme ABCB
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Simple 4-line
Metre 11011 01101 011011 1111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 93
Words 22
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 16
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 65
Words per stanza (avg) 20
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 03, 2023

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