Stanzas Composed During A Thunderstorm Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH CICI JKLM BCBC NONO PQPQ RSRT UVUV QWQW RCRC GRGR XYXY UZUZ A2RA2R WWWW| Chill and mirk is the nightly blast | A |
| Where Pindus' mountains rise | B |
| And angry clouds are pouring fast | A |
| The vengeance of the skies | B |
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| Our guides are gone our hope is lost | C |
| And lightnings as they play | D |
| But show where rocks our path have crost | C |
| Or gild the torrent's spray | D |
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| Is yon a cot I saw though low | E |
| When lightning broke the gloom | F |
| How welcome were its shade ah no | E |
| 'Tis but a Turkish tomb | F |
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| Through sounds of foaming waterfalls | G |
| I hear a voice exclaim | H |
| My way worn countryman who calls | G |
| On distant England's name | H |
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| A shot is fired by foe or friend | C |
| Another 'tis to tell | I |
| The mountain peasants to descend | C |
| And lead us where they dwell | I |
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| Oh who in such a night will dare | J |
| To tempt the wilderness | K |
| And who 'mid thunder peals can hear | L |
| Our signal of distress | M |
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| And who that heard our shouts would rise | B |
| To try the dubious road | C |
| Nor rather deem from nightly cries | B |
| That outlaws were abroad | C |
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| Clouds burst skies flash oh dreadful hour | N |
| More fiercely pours the storm | O |
| Yet here one thought has still the power | N |
| To keep my bosom warm | O |
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| While wandering through each broken path | P |
| O'er brake and craggy brow | Q |
| While elements exhaust their wrath | P |
| Sweet Florence where art thou | Q |
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| Not on the sea not on the sea | R |
| Thy bark hath long been gone | S |
| Oh may the storm that pours on me | R |
| Bow down my head alone | T |
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| Full swiftly blew the swift Siroc | U |
| When last I pressed thy lip | V |
| And long ere now with foaming shock | U |
| Impelled thy gallant ship | V |
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| Now thou art safe nay long ere now | Q |
| Hast trod the shore of Spain | W |
| 'Twere hard if aught so fair as thou | Q |
| Should linger on the main | W |
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| And since I now remember thee | R |
| In darkness and in dread | C |
| As in those hours of revelry | R |
| Which Mirth and Music sped | C |
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| Do thou amid the fair white walls | G |
| If Cadiz yet be free | R |
| At times from out her latticed halls | G |
| Look o'er the dark blue sea | R |
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| Then think upon Calypso's isles | X |
| Endeared by days gone by | Y |
| To others give a thousand smiles | X |
| To me a single sigh | Y |
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| And when the admiring circle mark | U |
| The paleness of thy face | Z |
| A half formed tear a transient spark | U |
| Of melancholy grace | Z |
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| Again thou'lt smile and blushing shun | A2 |
| Some coxcomb's raillery | R |
| Nor own for once thou thought'st on one | A2 |
| Who ever thinks on thee | R |
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| Though smile and sigh alike are vain | W |
| When severed hearts repine | W |
| My spirit flies o'er Mount and Main | W |
| And mourns in search of thine | W |
George Gordon Byron
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