What The Rain Saw Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGFG HIHI CDJD AKCKWinds of the summer time what are you saying | A |
What are ye seeking and what do you miss | B |
Locks like the thistledown floating and straying | A |
Cheeks like the budding rose tinted to kiss | B |
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See ye yon mist rising up from the river | C |
That is the spirit of yesterday's rain | D |
Go to it fly to it call to it cry to it | E |
What did ye see when ye fell on the plain | D |
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Rosewood and velvet and pansies and roses | F |
Blossoms from loving hands tenderly cast | G |
Lids like the leaves of a lily that closes | F |
After its brief little day life is past | G |
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Beautiful hands on a beautiful bosom | H |
Folded so quietly folded in rest | I |
Mouth like the bud of a white petalled blossom | H |
Creased where the lips of an angel had pressed | I |
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Lower and lower and lower and lower | C |
Dust unto dust but a mound on the plain | D |
Left alone lonely this and this only | J |
Saw we and see we to day said the rain | D |
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Winds of the summer time vain is your seeking | A |
Vain is your calling with sobs in your breath | K |
Lips that are tender eyes full of splendour | C |
Wooed away sued away vanished with death | K |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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