This is an analysis of Old Man Rain by Madison Julius Cawein.

Old Man Rain at the windowpane
Knocks and fumbles and knocks again:…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: AaaAaA AaaaaAXaaaaaa
  • Stanza lengths: 6,13,
  • Metre: 11110101 11101101 01110111 11110101 1111101 111 11110101 11100101 01110111 1110101 11101101 111 1110101 011110101 10100101 011111101 0010110101 1111111
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 18

Repeated words/phrases

and, old

Anaphora

old