There Will Come Soft Rains
By Sara Teasdale-on page 414
By Kaitlyn Campshure
Theme
Nature can live without the human race, the lives in nature will still have their normal life cycles.
Imagery
Sight
"Robins will wear their feathery fire"-line 5-The look of the Robin will not change.
Sound
"And frogs in the pools singing at night"-line 3- Frogs will still sing as though nothing happened.
Smell
"There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground"-line 1-Weather is going to occur as usual.
Rhyme
"tree","utterly"
Lines 9,10 Nature would not be affected if mankind perished.
"dawn","gone"
Lines 11,12 Spring would not apprehend that a species has ended.
"ground","sound"
Lines 1,2 Birds and the weather are still going to occur as usual.
Figurative Language
Metaphor
Line 4, "Wild plum-trees in tremulous white". Trees are going to still bloom when spring arrives.
Personification
Line 6, "Whistling their whims on a low fence wire". The songs of Robins are still going to be heard.
Personification
Line 11,"And spring herself, when she woke at dawn". Spring will come without hesitation.