The Rainbow Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CBCB DEDE FGFG HIHI JBJB KLKL MNMN JOJO PQPQ RIRI| I do set my bow in the cloud and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth | A |
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| Genesis ix | B |
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| SOFT falls the mild reviving shower | C |
| From April's changeful skies | B |
| And rain drops bend each trembling flower | C |
| They tinge with richer dyes | B |
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| Soon shall their genial influence call | D |
| A thousand buds to day | E |
| Which waiting but their balmy fall | D |
| In hidden beauty lay | E |
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| E'en now full many a blossom's bell | F |
| With fragrance fills the shade | G |
| And verdure clothes each grassy dell | F |
| In brighter tints arrayed | G |
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| But mark what arch of varied hue | H |
| From heaven to earth is bowed | I |
| Haste ere it vanish haste to view | H |
| The Rainbow in the cloud | I |
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| How bright its glory there behold | J |
| The emerald's verdant rays | B |
| The topaz blends its hue of gold | J |
| With the deep ruby's blaze | B |
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| Yet not alone to charm thy sight | K |
| Was given the vision fair | L |
| Gaze on that arch of colored light | K |
| And read God's mercy there | L |
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| It tells us that the mighty deep | M |
| Fast by th' Eternal chained | N |
| No more o'er earth's domains shall sweep | M |
| Awful and unrestrained | N |
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| It tells that seasons heat and cold | J |
| Fixed by his sovereign will | O |
| Shall in their course bid man behold | J |
| Seed time and harvest still | O |
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| That still the flower shall deck the field | P |
| When vernal zephyrs blow | Q |
| That still the vine its fruit will yield | P |
| When autumn sun beams glow | Q |
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| Then child of that fair earth which yet | R |
| Smiles with each charm endowed | I |
| Bless thou His name whose mercy set | R |
| The Rainbow in the cloud | I |
Felicia Dorothea Hemans
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