There Will Come Soft RainBy Sara Teasdale

There will come soft rain and the smell of the ground, And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;

And frogs in the pools singing at night, And wild plum trees in tremulous white;

Robins will wear their feathery fire, Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;

And not one will know of the war, not one Will care at last when it is done.

Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree, If mankind perished utterly;

And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn Would scarcely know that we were gone.

Questions:
1. Is it a six-stanza poem? How do you know?
2. Does it have rhyming couplets? Write the words showing rhyme!
3. How is the mood or sound?
4. Alliteration is the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or
closely connected words. Write the lines showing alliteration!
5. Which stanza shows metaphor?
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