Analysis of Rain in the Bush
Arthur Henry Adams 1872 (Lawrence) – 1936 (Sydney, New South Wales)
The steady soaking of the rain,
The bush all sad and sombre;
The trees are weeping in their pain,
Dank leaves the ground encumber.
A dismal ghost of silence strays
From shade to dusky daylight;
O'er all a whispered horror weighs,
Like mist athwart the grey light.
A frightened robin in the ferns
Peeks fearfully and lonely,
But back to comfort him returns
The drip of rain-drops only.
The fern-fronds shiver when they feel
Cold foot-prints press like mist, as
Dim forms beneath the creepers steal
And vanish in the vistas.
Scheme | ABABCDCDEFEFGHGI |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01010101 011101 01110011 1101010 01011101 11111 101010101 1101011 01010001 11010 11110101 0111110 01110111 1111111 1101011 0100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 551 |
Words | 93 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 417 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 91 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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