The Wind Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHHIFJKLMNOPQI RSTUSVWOUXY| Blow harder wind and drive | A |
| My blood from hands and face back to the heart | B |
| Cry over ridges and down tapering coombs | C |
| Carry the flying dapple of the clouds | D |
| Over the grass over the soft grained plough | E |
| Stroke with ungentle hand the hill's rough hair | F |
| Against its usual set | G |
| Snatch at the reins in my dead hands and push me | H |
| Out of my saddle blow my labouring pony | H |
| Across the track You only drive my blood | I |
| Nearer the heart from face and hands and plant there | F |
| Slowly burning unseen but alive and wonderful | J |
| A numb confus d joy | K |
| This little world's in tumult Far away | L |
| The dim waves rise and wrestle with each other | M |
| And fall down headlong on the beach And here | N |
| Quick gusts fly up the funnels of the valleys | O |
| And meet their raging fellows on the hill tops | P |
| And we are in the midst | Q |
| This beating heart enriched with the hands' blood | I |
| Stands in the midst and feels the warm joy burn | R |
| In solitude and silence while all about | S |
| The gusts clamour like living angry birds | T |
| And the gorse seems hardly tethered to the ground | U |
| Blow louder wind about | S |
| My square set house rattle the windows lift | V |
| The trap door to the loft above my head | W |
| And let it fall clapping Yell in the trees | O |
| And throw a rotted elm branch to the ground | U |
| Flog the dry trailers of my climbing rose | X |
| Make deep O wind my rest | Y |
Edward Shanks
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