Analysis of Rain in the Mountains

Henry Lawson 1867 (Grenfell) – 1922 (Sydney)



The Valley's full of misty cloud,
Its tinted beauty drowning,
The Eucalypti roar aloud,
The mountain fronts are frowning.
The mist is hanging like a pall
From many granite ledges,
And many a little waterfall
Starts o’er the valley’s edges.

The sky is of a leaden grey,
Save where the north is surly,
The driven daylight speeds away,
And night comes o’er us early.

But, love, the rain will pass full soon,
Far sooner than my sorrow,
And in a golden afternoon
The sun may set to-morrow.


Scheme ABABXXXX CDCD EFEF
Poetic Form
Metre 01011101 1101010 0010101 0101110 01110101 1101010 01001010 1101010 01110101 1101110 0101101 0111110 11011111 1101110 0001001 0111110
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 486
Words 89
Sentences 5
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 8, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 126
Words per stanza (avg) 29
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Henry Lawson

Henry Lawson 17 June 1867 - 2 September 1922 was an Australian writer and poet Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period more…

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