The Four Elements. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEEFFGGAABBAAAA HHAA| The Fire Air Earth and water did contest | A |
| Which was the strongest noblest and the best | A |
| Who was of greatest use and might'est force | B |
| In placide Terms they thought now to discourse | B |
| That in due order each her turn should speak | C |
| But enmity this amity did break | D |
| All would be chief and all scorn'd to be under | E |
| Whence issu'd winds rains lightning thunder | E |
| The quaking earth did groan the Sky lookt black | F |
| The Fire the forced Air in sunder crack | F |
| The sea did threat the heav'ns the heavn's the earth | G |
| All looked like a Chaos or new birth | G |
| Fire broyled Earth scorched Earth it choaked | A |
| Both by their darings water so provoked | A |
| That roaring in it came and with its source | B |
| Soon made the Combatants abate their force | B |
| The rumbling hissing puffing was so great | A |
| The worlds confusion it did seem to threat | A |
| Till gentle Air Contention so abated | A |
| That betwixt hot and cold she arbitrated | A |
| The others difference being less did cease | H |
| All storms now laid and they in perfect peace | H |
| That Fire should first begin the rest consent | A |
| The noblest and most active Element | A |
Anne Bradstreet
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