Soft+Rains

 "There Will Come Soft Rains"   (War Time) By: Sara Teasdale http://www.holistichandsforhealth.com/raindrops.jpg/raindrops-full;crop:0.01,0,0.81,0.56.jpg      There will come soft rains 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 on 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. The Theme  of our poem in that nature will keep on growing and expanding even when the war is over. So what it really means is it will not react to human causes. The theme is what the poem is really about and really means.

A Symbol    is anything that stands for something else. An example of this is The Frogs, Wild Plum-trees and Birds represent thelove, peace and happiness.While the war represents the hate in the poem.

An End Rhyme is when the end of each stanzas, the words will rhyme, at the end of each line. Examples of the end ryhmes in this poem: 1st Stanza: Ground and Sound 2nd Stanza: Night and White 3rd Stanza: Fire and fence-wire 4th Stanza: one and done 5th Stanza: tree and utterly 6th Stanza Down and Gone