The Thunderstorm Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFGF HIHI JKJK LMLM DADA NBNB OPOP AQAQ| DEEP fiery clouds o'ercast the sky | A |
| Dead stillness reigns in air | B |
| There is not e'en a breeze on high | A |
| The gossamer to bear | B |
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| The woods are hushed the waves at rest | C |
| The lake is dark and still | D |
| Reflecting on its shadowy breast | C |
| Each form of rock and hill | D |
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| The lime leaf waves not in the grove | E |
| Nor rose tree in the bower | F |
| The birds have ceased their songs of love | G |
| Awed by the threatening hour | F |
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| 'T is noon yet nature's calm profound | H |
| Seems as at midnight deep | I |
| But hark what peal of awful sound | H |
| Breaks on creation's sleep | I |
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| The thunder bursts its rolling might | J |
| Seems the firm hills to shake | K |
| And in terrific splendor bright | J |
| The gathered lightnings break | K |
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| Yet fear not shrink not thou my child | L |
| Though by the bolt's descent | M |
| Were the tall cliffs in ruins piled | L |
| And the wide forests rent | M |
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| Doth not thy God behold thee still | D |
| With all surveying eye | A |
| Doth not his power all nature fill | D |
| Around beneath on high | A |
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| Know hadst thou eagle pinions free | N |
| To track the realms of air | B |
| Thou couldst not reach a spot where He | N |
| Would not be with thee there | B |
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| In the wide city's peopled towers | O |
| On the vast ocean's plains | P |
| 'Midst the deep woodland's loneliest bowers | O |
| Alike th' Almighty reigns | P |
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| Then fear not though the angry sky | A |
| A thousand darts should cast | Q |
| Why should we tremble e'en to die | A |
| And be with Him at last | Q |
Felicia Dorothea Hemans
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