Analysis of It's Raining My Son

Vahan Tekeyan 1878 (Constantinople) – 1948 (Cairo)



It's raining my son.... The autumn is wet,
Wet like the eyes of a poor beguiled love....
Go, close the window, and close the door,
Then come beside me, come, face me seated

In silence supreme.... It's raining my son.
Does it rain sometimes also in your soul?
Does your heart chill too? and do you shiver
Reflecting on the bright and bygone sun

Behind one of the closed doors of destiny?
But you weep my son.... In darkness, at once
Heavy tears outflow from your wet, wet eyes....

Weep, weep the tears of soon lost innocence;
Weep without knowing, my poor unwise son,
The poor prey of life; weep that you may grow.


Scheme XXXX AXXA XBX BAX
Poetic Form
Metre 1101101011 1101101011 110100101 1101111110 0100111011 1110110011 1111101110 010101011 01110111100 1111101011 101111111 1101111100 1011011011 0111111111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 608
Words 116
Sentences 11
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 3, 3
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 115
Words per stanza (avg) 29
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Vahan Tekeyan

Vahan Tekeyan was an Armenian poet and public activist. more…

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