"Rain In Summer"
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow How beautiful is the rain! After the dust and heat, In the broad and fiery street, In the narrow lane, How beautiful is the rain! How it clatters along the roofs, Like the tramp of hoofs! How it gushes and struggles out From the throat of the over-flowing spout! Across the window pane It pours and pours; And swift and side, With a muddy tide, Like a river down the gutter roars The rain, the welcome rain! |
MeaningI think this poem is about a long and in some ways pleasant and some ways dreadful summer and finally rainfall comes and pelters the roof. I think it is making the author happy that after maybe a drought everyone can finally enjoy the rain and relief.
Types and TechniquesThe techniques in this poem are repetition in lines 1 and 5 in stanza 1, where it says 'How beautiful is the rain!'. It has an end rhyme that does not go the whole way through but is in stanza 1 and 2 in lines 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11 and 12. The rhyme is at the end of every second line which is a couplet of 2 lines. Therefore the rhyme is A, A, B, B this means the first line rhymes with the second and the third line rhymes with the fourth and so on. But in this poem the rhyme is actually the second rhyme rhymes with the third because the rhyme does not sart at the beginning and will stop sometimes too.
Why I chose this PoemI chose this poem because it reminds me of the smell, taste and the feeling of the rain. I can relate to this poem and it doesn't for me have to be in the summer because it reminds me of rain altogether and being outside and enjoying it.
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