This is an analysis of Rain by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward.
What can the brown earth do,
Drenched and dripping through…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbc aaddc eeccc
- Stanza lengths: 5,5,5,
- Metre: 110111 11101 001110101 001 110101 110111 10111 111010101 001 110101 1111010 100010 1101010101 1110 110101
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 17
