A Sanitary Message Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHEHIJFJ BKLKMNON CPQPRKSK ABCBDEFE| Last night above the whistling wind | A |
| I heard the welcome rain | B |
| A fusillade upon the roof | C |
| A tattoo on the pane | B |
| The keyhole piped the chimney top | D |
| A warlike trumpet blew | E |
| Yet mingling with these sounds of strife | F |
| A softer voice stole through | E |
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| Give thanks O brothers said the voice | G |
| That He who sent the rains | H |
| Hath spared your fields the scarlet dew | E |
| That drips from patriot veins | H |
| I've seen the grass on Eastern graves | I |
| In brighter verdure rise | J |
| But oh the rain that gave it life | F |
| Sprang first from human eyes | J |
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| I come to wash away no stain | B |
| Upon your wasted lea | K |
| I raise no banners save the ones | L |
| The forest waves to me | K |
| Upon the mountain side where Spring | M |
| Her farthest picket sets | N |
| My reveille awakes a host | O |
| Of grassy bayonets | N |
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| I visit every humble roof | C |
| I mingle with the low | P |
| Only upon the highest peaks | Q |
| My blessings fall in snow | P |
| Until in tricklings of the stream | R |
| And drainings of the lea | K |
| My unspent bounty comes at last | S |
| To mingle with the sea | K |
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| And thus all night above the wind | A |
| I heard the welcome rain | B |
| A fusillade upon the roof | C |
| A tattoo on the pane | B |
| The keyhole piped the chimney top | D |
| A warlike trumpet blew | E |
| But mingling with these sounds of strife | F |
| This hymn of peace stole through | E |
Bret Harte
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