The Wind-s Tidings In August 1870 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDCDEDF G HIJIKIKGK LL MNMNONOPO N EHG GQGQR S| 'OH voice of summer winds among the trees | A |
| What soft news art thou bringing to us here | B |
| Dost thou come whispering of hushed scenes like these | A |
| Languid in sunlight while the drowsy deer | C |
| Couch placidly at rest and from the brake | D |
| The song of fearless wild birds rings out clear | C |
| And groves and meadows and this baby lake | D |
| Are dreaming to thy dreaming lullaby | E |
| Art telling of hushed scenes like these Awake | D |
| Answer sweet dying wind and do not die ' | F |
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| And the voice of the faint winds dying away | G |
| Answered me 'Nay ' | - |
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| 'Oh voice of summer winds then art thou come | H |
| From fluttering in the tangles of the vines | I |
| Beside the blue blue seas in the far home | J |
| Of the dim olives and the dusky pines | I |
| And from the cypress bosks and where the air | K |
| Grows lush and heavy 'twixt the dark starred lines | I |
| Of orange hedge a bloom and the wide glare | K |
| Floods soft round hills with southern perfect day | G |
| Answer again low voice hast thou been there | K |
| Art telling of the dreamland far away ' | - |
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| And the voice of the winds sighed over my head | L |
| 'Nay nay ' it said | L |
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| 'Oh sweet low voice of winds whose wavering flights | M |
| Smoothly like flickering swallows come and go | N |
| What is thy tale of where the ceaseless heights | M |
| Rest white and cloudlike in their virgin snow | N |
| Hast thou been wandering round the scented firs | O |
| And where the dauntless shrub flowers bud and blow | N |
| Against the pale chill sea that never stirs | O |
| And where the midway foam hangs o'er the cleft | P |
| Speak slumbrous voice to slumbrous listeners | O |
| Art telling us of these that thou hast left ' | - |
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| And the voice of the dying winds breathed low | N |
| 'Nay nay not so ' | - |
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| 'Oh voice of dying winds make sweet reply | E |
| Whence hast thou come | H |
| What does thy whisper say | G |
| Answer oh dying voice and do not die ' | - |
| It whispered in a hush 'The dead men lay | G |
| Fallen together like the sickled grain | Q |
| Onward still dashed the whirlwind and the fray | G |
| The thunders and the tramplings shook the plain | Q |
| There was the crash and clash of host to host | R |
| Throes and the blood pools widening death and pain ' | - |
| And waning in a murmur it was lost | S |
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