The Rain
James Whitcomb Riley 1849 (Greenfield) – 1916 (Indianapolis)
I.
The rain! the rain! the rain!
It gushed from the skies and streamed
Like awful tears; and the sick man thought
How pitiful it seemed!
And he turned his face away,
And stared at the wall again,
His hopes nigh dead and his heart worn out.
O the rain! the rain! the rain!
II.
The rain! the rain! the rain!
And the broad stream brimmed the shores;
And ever the river crept over the reeds
And the roots of the sycamores:
A corpse swirled by in a drift
Where the boat had snapt its chain--
And a hoarse-voiced mother shrieked and raved.
O the rain! the rain! the rain!
III.
The rain! the rain! the rain!--
Pouring, with never a pause,
Over the fields and the green byways--
How beautiful it was!
And the new-made man and wife
Stood at the window-pane
Like two glad children kept from school.--
O the rain! the rain! the rain!
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 26, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | AbxbxxxA AcxcxaxA AxxxxaxA |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 804 |
Words | 161 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
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