“Summer Rain” by Amy Lowell All night our room was outer-walled with rain. Drops fell and flattened on the tin roof, And rang like little disks of metal. Ping!—Ping!—and there was not a pin-point of silence between them. 5 The rain rattled and clashed, And the slats of the shutters danced and glittered. But to me the darkness was red-gold and crocus-colored With your brightness, And the words you whispered to me 10 Sprang up and flamed—orange torches against the rain. Torches against the wall of cool, silver rain!

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“Summer Rain” by Amy Lowell All night our room was outer-walled with rain. Drops fell and flattened on the tin roof, And rang like little disks of metal. Ping!—Ping!—and there was not a pin-point of silence between them. 5 The rain rattled and clashed, And the slats of the shutters danced and glittered. But to me the darkness was red-gold and crocus-colored With your brightness, And the words you whispered to me 10 Sprang up and flamed—orange torches against the rain. Torches against the wall of cool, silver rain!

Question Use the poem to answer the question. Which of the following structural elements best supports the interpretation that the rain is a powerful force in the narrator’s life? (1 point)

Responses
the trochees and the iambic pentameter
the uneven meter in the lines and enjambment
the onomatopoeia and the couplet
the alternating rhyme and the meter
the dactyls and the half-rhymes

Answer 1