Listening Back
Ina D. Coolbrith 1841 ( Nauvoo, Illinoi) – 1928 ( Oakland)
There are no comrade roses at my window,
No green things in the lane;
Upon the roof no sibilant soft patter-
The lullaby of rain;
Without is silence, and within is silence,
Till silence grows a pain.
Within is silence, and without is silence,
The snow is on the sill,
In snow the window wreath’d instead of roses,
And snow is very still....
I wonder is it singing in the grasses,
The rain, on Russian Hill?
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XAXABA BCXCXC |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 437 |
Words | 78 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6 |
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