After Rain Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBABCC DEEDFGG HAAHAIJ KLLKLMM NOONOCC PQQPMRR| For three whole days across the sky | A |
| In sullen packs that loomed and broke | B |
| With flying fringes dim as smoke | B |
| The columns of the rain went by | A |
| At every hour the wind awoke | B |
| The darkness passed upon the plain | C |
| The great drops rattled at the pane | C |
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| Now piped the wind or far aloof | D |
| Fell to a sough remote and dull | E |
| And all night long with rush and lull | E |
| The rain kept drumming on the roof | D |
| I heard till ear and sense were full | F |
| The clash or silence of the leaves | G |
| The gurgle in the creaking eaves | G |
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| But when the fourth day came at noon | H |
| The darkness and the rain were by | A |
| The sunward roofs were steaming dry | A |
| And all the world was flecked and strewn | H |
| With shadows from a fleecy sky | A |
| The haymakers were forth and gone | I |
| And every rillet laughed and shone | J |
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| Then too on me that loved so well | K |
| The world despairing in her blight | L |
| Uplifted with her least delight | L |
| On me as on the earth there fell | K |
| New happiness of mirth and might | L |
| I strode the valleys pied and still | M |
| I climbed upon the breezy hill | M |
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| I watched the gray hawk wheel and drop | N |
| Sole shadow on the shining world | O |
| I saw the mountains clothed and curled | O |
| With forest ruffling to the top | N |
| I saw the river's length unfurled | O |
| Pale silver down the fruited plain | C |
| Grown great and stately with the rain | C |
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| Through miles of shadow and soft heat | P |
| Where field and fallow fence and tree | Q |
| Were all one world of greenery | Q |
| I heard the robin ringing sweet | P |
| The sparrow piping silverly | M |
| The thrushes at the forest's hem | R |
| And as I went I sang with them | R |
Archibald Lampman
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