The Tornado Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE FGHIJKLMNOP QRSTUA VWXYZS| God let me fall from His hand | A |
| One day at His forge when the elemental world | B |
| Was shaping I am but a breath from His great bellows | C |
| But here among the workshops of mankind | D |
| I am a fateful scourge | E |
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| I tear red strips from the proud cities of men | F |
| I name my passage the Highway of Instant Death | G |
| I splinter world old forests with my laugh | H |
| And whirl the ancient snows of Hecla sheer into Orion's eyes | I |
| I dance on the deep under the big Indian stars | J |
| And wrap the water spout about my sinuous hips | K |
| As a dancer winds her girdle The ocean's horrid crew | L |
| The octopus the serpent and the shark with the heart of a coward | M |
| Plunge downward when they hear my feet above on the sea floor | N |
| And hide in their slimy coverts Brave men pray upon the straining decks | O |
| Till comes my mood to end them and I strew the racing foam with wreckage | P |
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| I am a breath from God's forge I remember His awful workshop | Q |
| How the hot globes spun off into infinite darkness as system by system | R |
| The universe was wrought and then I remember the birth of the sun | S |
| How God cried Let there be light and blinding bewildering exulting | T |
| The great orb flamed from His furnace and only the Creator stood upright | U |
| In that hour I fell from His hand | A |
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| I am a breath from God's forge | V |
| And being a part of creation I shall also be a part of the end | W |
| He has told me that there shall come a day | X |
| When the Seventh Angel shall open his last vial of wrath in the mid air | Y |
| And in that day I shall dance with the thunder the lightning and the earthquake | Z |
| And dancing hear His voice cry out from Heaven's temple It is done | S |
Charles Hamilton Musgrove
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