A Word With The Wind Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDCECEAFAFGBGB CBCBCHCHCICICJCJKLKL BMBMBBBBDBDBININAOAO IDID| Lord of days and nights that hear thy word of wintry warning | A |
| Wind whose feet are set on ways that none may tread | B |
| Change the nest wherein thy wings are fledged for flight by morning | A |
| Change the harbour whence at dawn thy sails are spread | B |
| Not the dawn ere yet the imprisoning night has half released her | C |
| More desires the sun's full face of cheer than we | D |
| Well as yet we love the strength of the iron tongued north easter | C |
| Yearn for wind to meet us as we front the sea | D |
| All thy ways are good O wind and all the world should fester | C |
| Were thy fourfold godhead quenched or stilled thy strife | E |
| Yet the waves and we desire too long the deep south wester | C |
| Whence the waters quicken shoreward clothed with life | E |
| Yet the field not made for ploughing save of keels nor harrowing | A |
| Save of storm winds lies unbrightened by thy breath | F |
| Banded broad with ruddy samphire glow the sea banks narrowing | A |
| Westward while the sea gleams chill and still as death | F |
| Sharp and strange from inland sounds thy bitter note of battle | G |
| Blown between grim skies and waters sullen souled | B |
| Till the baffled seas bear back rocks roar and shingles rattle | G |
| Vexed and angered and anhungered and acold | B |
| Change thy note and give the waves their will and all the measure | C |
| Full and perfect of the music of their might | B |
| Let it fill the bays with thunderous notes and throbs of pleasure | C |
| Shake the shores with passion sound at once and smite | B |
| Sweet are even the mild low notes of wind and sea but sweeter | C |
| Sounds the song whose choral wrath of raging rhyme | H |
| Bids the shelving shoals keep tune with storm's imperious metre | C |
| Bids the rocks and reefs respond in rapturous chime | H |
| Sweet the lisp and lulling whisper and luxurious laughter | C |
| Soft as love or sleep of waves whereon the sun | I |
| Dreams and dreams not of the darkling hours before nor after | C |
| Winged with cloud whose wrath shall bid love's day be done | I |
| Yet shall darkness bring the awakening sea a lordlier lover | C |
| Clothed with strength more amorous and more strenuous will | J |
| Whence her heart of hearts shall kindle and her soul recover | C |
| Sense of love too keen to lie for love's sake still | J |
| Let thy strong south western music sound and bid the billows | K |
| Brighten proud and glad to feel thy scourge and kiss | L |
| Sting and soothe and sway them bowed as aspens bend or willows | K |
| Yet resurgent still in breathless rage of bliss | L |
| All to day the slow sleek ripples hardly bear up shoreward | B |
| Charged with sighs more light than laughter faint and fair | M |
| Like a woodland lake's weak wavelets lightly lingering forward | B |
| Soft and listless as the slumber stricken air | M |
| Be the sunshine bared or veiled the sky superb or shrouded | B |
| Still the waters lax and languid chafed and foiled | B |
| Keen and thwarted pale and patient clothed with fire or clouded | B |
| Vex their heart in vain or sleep like serpents coiled | B |
| Thee they look for blind and baffled wan with wrath and weary | D |
| Blown for ever back by winds that rock the bird | B |
| Winds that seamews breast subdue the sea and bid the dreary | D |
| Waves be weak as hearts made sick with hope deferred | B |
| Let thy clarion sound from westward let the south bear token | I |
| How the glories of thy godhead sound and shine | N |
| Bid the land rejoice to see the land wind's broad wings broken | I |
| Bid the sea take comfort bid the world be thine | N |
| Half the world abhors thee beating back the sea and blackening | A |
| Heaven with fierce and woful change of fluctuant form | O |
| All the world acclaims thee shifting sail again and slackening | A |
| Cloud by cloud the close reefed cordage of the storm | O |
| Sweeter fields and brighter woods and lordlier hills than waken | I |
| Here at sunrise never hailed the sun and thee | D |
| Turn thee then and give them comfort shed like rain and shaken | I |
| Far as foam that laughs and leaps along the sea | D |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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