Analysis of The Latter Rain
Jones Very 1813 (Salem) – 1880
THE latter rain, it falls in anxious haste
Upon the sun-dried fields and branches bare,
Loosening with searching drops the rigid waste
As if it would each root's lost strength repair;
But not a blade grows green as in the spring,
No swelling twig puts forth its thickening leaves;
The robins only mid the harvests sing
Pecking the grain that scatters from the sheaves;
The rain falls still--the fruit all ripened drops,
It pierces chestnut burr and walnut shell,
The furrowed fields disclose the yellow crops,
Each bursting pod of talents used can tell,
And all that once received the early rain
Declare to man it was not sent in vain.
Scheme | ABABCDCDEFEFGG |
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Poetic Form | Shakespearean sonnet |
Metre | 0101110101 0101110101 10011010101 1111111101 1101111001 11011111001 0101010101 100111101 0111011101 1111011 0101010101 1101110111 0111010101 0111111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 643 |
Words | 113 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 510 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 111 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 13, 2023
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