The Storm Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH HIHI HJHJ KLKL HHHH MNMN| O GRIP the earth ye forest trees | A |
| Grip well the earth to night | B |
| The Storm God rides across the seas | A |
| To greet the morning light | B |
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| All clouds that wander through the skies | C |
| Are tangled in his net | D |
| The frightened stars have shut their eyes | C |
| The breakers fume and fret | D |
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| The birds that cheer the woods all day | E |
| Now tremble in their nests | F |
| The giant branches round them sway | E |
| The wild wind never rests | F |
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| The squirrel and the cunning fox | G |
| Have hurried to their holes | H |
| Far off like distant earthquake shocks | G |
| The muffled thunder rolls | H |
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| In scores of hidden woodland dells | H |
| Where no rough winds can harm | I |
| The timid wild flowers toss their bells | H |
| In reasonless alarm | I |
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| Only the mountains rear their forms | H |
| Silent and grim and bold | J |
| To them the voices of the storms | H |
| Are as a tale re told | J |
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| They saw the stars in heaven hung | K |
| They heard the great Sea's birth | L |
| They know the ancient pain that wrung | K |
| The entrails of the Earth | L |
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| Sprung from great Nature's royal lines | H |
| They share her deep repose | H |
| Their rugged shoulders robed in pines | H |
| Their foreheads crowned with snows | H |
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| But now there comes a lightning flash | M |
| And now on hill and plain | N |
| The charging clouds in fury dash | M |
| And blind the world with rain | N |
Frederick George Scott
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