Analysis of "rain"



Purple shadows call from above,
thou fall unto thee, face down flight,
sprinkle in thine eyes of beauty,
shimmers velvets sun darkness.

Thy silent senses embrace,
thou dripping cool shivers of lace,
in thy rivers of sound calling,
absorbed of thou soul searching.

For what thou art a rainbow,
in darkness of thy night streaming,
stark upon thy face thou entrance,
to seek thy shadow in thee.

From thy darkness thou rain on,
thine ears cry of truffle tears quite,
so accordingly brilliant thou,
thy faint hasten reflection


Scheme XABX CCDD XDXB XAXX
Poetic Form Quatrain  (25%)
Metre 1011101 11101111 10011110 101110 1101001 11011011 01101110 0111110 111101 01011110 10111110 111101 1110111 11111011 10100101 1110010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 506
Words 88
Sentences 4
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 105
Words per stanza (avg) 22
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 23, 2023

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Steven Louis Chapman

Steven was adopted, his biological father was an English professor who had an affair with a student. Writing poetry is an outlet for his expression of love. A hopeless romantic in search of his soul mate. (it changes from now and then) He hopes to capture the girl of his dreams through poetry. Visit my blog at http://thedailypoetrss.blogspot.com/ for the latest up to date poems. more…

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