The Wind At Night Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DCDC EFGF CHCI JKJK CFCF LLLL CLCLMCMC NCOC CCCC PFPF QCRC SCKC TFTF| O SUDDEN blast that through this silence black | A |
| Sweeps past my windows | B |
| Coming and going with invisible track | A |
| As death or sin does | C |
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| Why scare me lying sick and save thy own | D |
| Hearing no voices | C |
| Why mingle with a helpless human moan | D |
| Thy mad rejoices | C |
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| Why not come gently as good angels come | E |
| To souls departing | F |
| Floating among the shadows of the room | G |
| With eyes light darting | F |
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| Bringing faint airs of balm that seem to rouse | C |
| Thoughts of a Far Land | H |
| Then binding softly upon weary brows | C |
| Death's poppy garland | I |
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| O fearful blast I shudder at thy sound | J |
| Like heathen mortal | K |
| Who saw the Three that mark life's doom d bound | J |
| Sit at his portal | K |
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| Thou mightst be laden with sad shrieking souls | C |
| Carried unwilling | F |
| From their known earth to the unknown stream that rolls | C |
| All anguish stilling | F |
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| Fierce wind will the Death angel come like thee | L |
| Soon soon to bear me | L |
| Whither what mysteries may unfold to me | L |
| What terrors scare me | L |
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| Shall I go wand'ring on through empty space | C |
| As on earth lonely | L |
| Or seek through myriad spirit ranks one face | C |
| And miss that only | L |
| Shall I not then drop down from sphere to sphere | M |
| Palsied and aimless | C |
| Or will my being change so that both fear | M |
| And grief die nameless | C |
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| Rather I pray Him who Himself is Love | N |
| Out of whose essence | C |
| We all do spring and towards him tending move | O |
| Back to His presence | C |
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| That even His brightness may not quite efface | C |
| The soul's earth features | C |
| That the dear human likeness each may trace | C |
| Glorified creatures | C |
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| That we may not cease loving only taught | P |
| Holier desiring | F |
| More faith more patience with more wisdom fraught | P |
| Higher aspiring | F |
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| That we may do all work we left undone | Q |
| Here though unmeetness | C |
| From height to height celestial passing on | R |
| Towards full completeness | C |
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| Then strong Azrael be thy supreme call | S |
| Soft as spring breezes | C |
| Or like this blast whose loud fiend festival | K |
| My heart's blood freezes | C |
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| I will not fear thee If thou safely keep | T |
| My soul God's giving | F |
| And my soul's soul I wakening from death sleep | T |
| Shall first know living | F |
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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