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WHEN the humid shadows hover

Over all the starry spheres,



And the melancholy darkness

Gently weeps in rainy tears,

What a bliss to press the pillow
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Of a cottage-chamber bed,

And to listen to the patter

Of the soft rain overhead!



Every tinkle on the shingles

Has an echo in the heart;
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And a thousand dreamy fancies

Into busy being start,

And a thousand recollections

Weave their air-threads into woof,
As I listen to the patter
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Of the rain upon the roof.



Now in memory comes my mother,
As she used, in years agone,

To regard the darling dreamers

Ere she left them till the dawn:
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O! I see her leaning oer me,

As I list to this refrain

Which is played upon the shingles

By the patter of the rain.


A summary of "Rain on the Roof" by Coates Kinney reveals a poem lauding the healing
power of Nature's rain, especially when heard from a cozy bed in a lovely cottage. The
first tells that it is pleasant to live and sleep snugly in a cottage on a rainy night. The
second, that the tinkle of the rain brings dreamy fancies with bright hues of recollection.
In the third the fondest memory of his mother is stirred before him in all her gentle
loveliness by the patter of the rain. Next in the fifth comes the bright hued recollection of
his sister and brother who died young and transcended to the state of angels. The
conflict occurs and is resolved in the sixth stanza when then comes the memory of his
faithless love, but he forgets to remember that she was unfaithful as his heart vibrates to
the patter of the rain. The resolution of the seventh stanza reveals the speakers
assertion that Art can't even equal the subduing strain on sorrowful passions as can the
patter of Nature's rain.
The rhyme scheme is an unusual one, but was once used by Mozart in his opera Cos
fan tutte. The rhyme scheme of the seven stanza octave (eight lines) poem with a rhyme
scheme of ABCBDE, FG, with the FG lines ("And to listen to the patter / Of the soft rain
overhead!") repeated at the end of each stanza in six variations. Stanzas three and six
repeat exactly: "Which is played upon the shingles / By the patter of the rain." Some of
the FG position variations are:
Which is played upon the shingles
By the patter of the rain.
and
And my heart's quick pulses vibrate
To the patter of the rain.

I like this poem because it gives a general sense of life. When we arrive at a certain point where
we have to make a major decision, what would we do? Do we take the popular path? Or do we
break away from the norm and venture out into our own dreams? Robert Frost has certainly
shown here that he chose to pursue his dreams, and I suppose he has made a good choice and
has excelled in his field of work. In today's society many things are based on money and wealth;
Robert Frost, being a poet, certainly does not make much money, and yet he does not regret his
choice.

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