This is an analysis of The Rain by James Whitcomb Riley.
I.
The rain! the rain! the rain!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: a BcdcabdB X BeeXdbcB X BeeeXbXB
- Stanza lengths: 1,8,1,8,1,8,
- Metre: 1 010101 0100111 110110111 110001 1110101 1110101 011110111 1010101 1 010101 1011101 11001011001 101001000 0111001 1011101 101110111 1010101 1 010101 1001001 100110111 110001 1011111 110101 11110101 1010101
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 27
Repeated words/phrases
rain, and, his
Anaphora
and
