The lyric hero of Rain Lane has a sense of tragedy and loneliness, because the beautiful girl he expects to symbolize his ideal is just a dreamlike hazy image. Because the lyric hero's singing is closely linked with the image symbolizing the girl, a poetic image with rich connotation and far-reaching artistic conception (a long and lonely rain lane) is formed, which makes the whole poem infected with the style characteristics of symbolic poetry from content to form.
However, because the emotional experience conveyed in the poem is based on the details of real daily life, the poem has got rid of the elusive mystery of symbolic poetry (such as the works of French poet Whalen revered by Dai Wangshu). Dark and narrow alleys and continuous rain in rainy lanes are common scenery in the rainy season in Jiangnan towns.
The "I" and "a sad and resentful girl" in the poem are not concrete portrayal of real life, but lyrical images full of symbolic significance. These images are not illusory, clear and hazy, bright and deep, and vague, which makes readers deeply realize the poet's erratic melancholy and futile pursuit of emptiness and loneliness.
Besides being influenced by symbolism poems, Rain Lane also draws lessons from China's classical poems. "Spring birds don't spread news outside the cloud, lilacs are sad in the rain" is the noun of Li Wangjing, a master of the Southern Tang Dynasty. Dai Wangshu absorbed the methods of describing sadness and creating artistic conception in old poems to express his sadness.