The Wind-child Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGDDHHIJ KKLL| My folk's the wind folk it's there I belong | A |
| I tread the earth below them and the earth does me wrong | A |
| Before my spirit knew itself before this frame unfurled | B |
| I was a little wandering breeze and blew about the world | B |
| The winds of the morning that breathe against my cheek | C |
| Are kisses of comfort from a love too great to speak | C |
| The whimpering airs that cry by night and never find their rest | D |
| Are sobbing to be taken in and soothed upon my breast | D |
| The storm through the mountains the tempest from the sea | E |
| That ride their cloudy horses and take no thought of me | E |
| They are my noble brothers that hasten to the fight | F |
| They fill my heart with singing they fill my eyes with light | F |
| They're a shield upon my shoulder a sword by my side | G |
| A battle cry for weariness and a plume of pride | G |
| But sometimes in the moonlight when the moon is in the west | D |
| Young and strange and virginal and dropping to her rest | D |
| There comes a wind from out the south a little chill and thin | H |
| And draws me from the human warmth that houses it within | H |
| My soul streams forth to follow a soul that lures it on | I |
| The sleepy flesh calls kin to it and murmurs to be gone | J |
| Across the dreaming dewy flowers and through the shadowy trees | K |
| The sweet insistent whisper comes and I am ill at ease | K |
| How they have not told me and where I do not know | L |
| But the wind folk is my folk and some day I'll go | L |
Enid Derham
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