A Thunder-storm. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGH IBJK LMNG ODPQ| The wind begun to rock the grass | A |
| With threatening tunes and low | B |
| He flung a menace at the earth | C |
| A menace at the sky | D |
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| The leaves unhooked themselves from trees | E |
| And started all abroad | F |
| The dust did scoop itself like hands | G |
| And throw away the road | H |
| - | |
| The wagons quickened on the streets | I |
| The thunder hurried slow | B |
| The lightning showed a yellow beak | J |
| And then a livid claw | K |
| - | |
| The birds put up the bars to nests | L |
| The cattle fled to barns | M |
| There came one drop of giant rain | N |
| And then as if the hands | G |
| - | |
| That held the dams had parted hold | O |
| The waters wrecked the sky | D |
| But overlooked my father's house | P |
| Just quartering a tree | Q |
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
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