Analysis of Rainy Tours
We were children walking together
Along the river Loire
Riding the breeze like flags untethered
Our love a roaring star
She came from the mountain tops
Capped with summer snow
And I a native of the swamp
Did in her sunshine glow
She was no tourangelle
But it's really just as well
If even for one day to know her mind
I'd suffer death and say it to be kind
And she to her mountain home
And me to my Normandy foam
Will go when May's tidings come
'Til rainy Tours is hidden 'neath my thumb
'Til I drown my tears in bitter rum
| Scheme | XXAX XBXB CCAA DDEE E |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101010010 010101 1001111 1010101 1110101 11101 01010101 10011 1111 1110111 1101111101 1101011111 0110101 01111001 1111101 1101110111 111110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 507 |
| Words | 104 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 83 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on March 15, 2014
Modified on March 05, 2023
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