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.


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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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Arthur Henry Adams

Arthur Henry Adams was a journalist and author. He started his career in New Zealand, though he spent most of it in Australia, and for a short time lived in China and London.  more…

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