This is an analysis of The Rainbow by James Thomson.

Moist, bright, and green, the landscape laughs around.
Full swell the woods; their every music wakes,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbcccaXcadcXaadacadd
  • Stanza lengths: 21,
  • Metre: 1111011101 11011100101 10110001001 0101010001 1101010001 11010101001 1110001101 10010101001 11011100101 0101010001 01010010001 1101000101 110101110010 1001010101 01001011101 00110011101 11001010101 010100100111 0101010101 10110010111 110101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 21