The Fitful Alternations of the Rain
Rain alternates fitfully as a chill wind, heavy with moisture and compared to something languid with pain, moves through a gray, beamless atmosphere.
By Percy Bysshe Shelley · Genre: Nature Poetry, Descriptive Poetry · 42 words
First lines
The fitful alternations of the rain, / When the chill wind, languid as with pain / Of its own heavy moisture, here and there / Drives through the gray and beamless atmosphere.
Genres
- Nature Poetry — The four lines describe intermittent rain, a chill wind and a gray atmosphere.
- Descriptive Poetry — The verse conveys the wind's moisture and sluggish movement through a comparison with pain.
Tags
rain · wind · weather · gray skies
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Date: Date unknown
- Language: English
- Genres: Nature Poetry, Descriptive Poetry
- Length: 42 words
- Structure: 1 section, 1 paragraphs
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