However, once his second stanza was written, the message of encouragement was allowed to flourish and gave way to beautiful, engaging poetry. Throughout the poem the words dark, sad, wind, tired and day have been used repeatedly, this is an obvious choice of words to lend to the reader's ear to give them a thought about their own visions of a melancholy existence. But even at the end you can tell where his thoughts began to come alive and his small but recurring voice of reason and hope stepped in to relieve the poem from encapsulating despair, the mention of past memories in the second stanza mimics that of the third line in A first verse talks about clinging vines, and is an accompaniment to the emotion already established. Longfellow's The Rainy Day compared to other authors or even Longfellow's own works; it may be a shorter and less complicated poem, but what it has is simple, pure and dare I say it; raw sensation of time, place and