im not very good at poems.. so i need your help please!


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 overflowing spout!


The sick man from his chamber looks

At the twisted brooks;

He can feel the cool

Breath of each little pool;

His fevered brain

Grows calm again,

And he breathes a blessing on the rain.


From the neighboring school

Come the boys,

With more than their wonted noise

And commotion;

And down the wet streets

Sail their mimic fleets,

Till the treacherous pool

Ingulfs them in its whirling

And turbulent ocean.


Question - does each stanza have the same meter?


Meter - a recurring pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables


Thank you!