A Wet Season Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDED FGFGHIJI KGKGLMNO| The rain is fierce it flogs the earth | A |
| And man's in danger | B |
| O that my mother at my birth | A |
| Had borne a stranger | B |
| The flooded ground is all around | C |
| The depth uncommon | D |
| How blest I'd be if only she | E |
| Had borne a salmon | D |
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| If still denied the solar glow | F |
| 'T were bliss ecstatic | G |
| To be amphibious but O | F |
| To be aquatic | G |
| We're worms men say o' the dust and they | H |
| That faith are firm of | I |
| O then be just show me some dust | J |
| To be a worm of | I |
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| The pines are chanting overhead | K |
| A psalm uncheering | G |
| It's O to have been for ages dead | K |
| And hard of hearing | G |
| Restore ye Pow'rs the last bright hours | L |
| The dial reckoned | M |
| 'Twas in the time of Egypt's prime | N |
| Rameses II | O |
Ambrose Bierce
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