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 |
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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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