This is an analysis of There Will Come Soft Rain by Sara Teasdale.
There will come soft rain and the smell of the ground,
And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aa bb cc dd XXXdd
- Stanza lengths: 2,2,2,2,5,
- Metre: 10111101001 110100011001 110011011 111101001 1001110010 1011101110 1110100111 01111001 111110111 01110100 1010111111 11011101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 12
Repeated words/phrases
and
Anaphora
and
