This is an analysis of The Latter Rain by Jones Very.

THE latter rain, it falls in anxious haste
Upon the sun-dried fields and branches bare,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdefefgg
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 0101010101 0101111101 10001010101 1001111101 11011110001 11011101001 0101010101 1001110001 0111011101 0101111111 0101010101 1101010111 1111010101 0101011101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14