Hard Weather Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABBAACACDEDE FGFGHIHIAJAJKAKA ILILIIIIMNMNAAAA IAIAOPOPPOQRRQRQIIII STST AAAAAAJUJUVIVIWIWIFX FGVAVAMYMYMFMFBZBZ

Bursts from a rending East in flawsA
The young green leaflet's harrier swornB
To strew the garden strip the shawsA
And show our Spring with banner tornB
Was ever such virago mornB
The wind has teeth the wind has clawsA
All the wind's wolves through woods are looseA
The wild wind's falconry aloftC
Shrill underfoot the grassblade shrewsA
At gallop clumped and down the croftC
Bestrid by shadows beaten tossedD
It seems a scythe it seems a rodE
The howl is up at the howl's accostD
The shivers greet and the shivers nodE
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Is the land ship we are rolled we driveF
Tritonly cleaving hiss and humG
Whirl with the dead or mount or diveF
Or down in dregs or on in scumG
And drums the distant pipes the nearH
And vale and hill are grey in greyI
As when the surge is crumbling sheerH
And sea mews wing the haze of sprayI
Clouds are they bony witches swarmsA
Darting swift on the robber's flightJ
Hurry an infant sky in armsA
It peeps it becks 'tis day 'tis nightJ
Black while over the loop of blueK
The swathe is closed like shroud on corseA
Lo as if swift the Furies flewK
The Fates at heel at a cry to horseA
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Interpret me the savage whirrI
And is it Nature scourged or sheL
Her offspring's executionerI
Reducing land to barren seaL
But is there meaning in a dayI
When this fierce angel of the airI
Intent to throw and haply slayI
Can for what breath of life we bearI
Exact the wrestle Call to mindM
The many meanings glistening upN
When Nature to her nurslings kindM
Hands them the fruitage and the cupN
And seek we rich significanceA
Not otherwhere than with those tidesA
Of pleasure on the sunned expanseA
Whose flow deludes whose ebb deridesA
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Look in the face of men who fareI
Lock mouthed a match in lungs and thewsA
For this fierce angel of the airI
To twist with him and take his bruiseA
That is the face beloved of oldO
Of Earth young mother of her broodP
Nor broken for us shows the mouldO
When muscle is in mind renewedP
Though farther from her nature rudeP
Yet nearer to her spirit's holdO
And though of gentler mood sereneQ
Still forceful of her fountain jetR
So shall her blows be shrewdly metR
Be luminously read the sceneQ
Where Life is at her grindstone setR
That she may give us edgeing keenQ
String us for battle till as playI
The common strokes of fortune showerI
Such meaning in a dagger dayI
Our wits may clasp to wax in powerI
Yea feel us warmer at her breastS
By spin of blood in lusty drillT
Than when her honeyed hands caressedS
And Pleasure sapping seemed to fillT
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Behold the life at ease it driftsA
The sharpened life commands its courseA
She winnows winnows roughly siftsA
To dip her chosen in her sourceA
Contention is the vital forceA
Whence pluck they brain her prize of giftsA
Sky of the senses on which heightJ
Not disconnected yet releasedU
They see how spirit comes to lightJ
Through conquest of the inner beastU
Which Measure tames to movement saneV
In harmony with what is fairI
Never is Earth misread by brainV
That is the welling of her thereI
The mirror with one step beyondW
For likewise is it voice and moreI
Benignest kinship bids respondW
When wail the weak and them restoreI
Whom days as fell as this may riveF
While Earth sits ebon in her gloomX
Us atomies of life aliveF
Unheeding bent on life to comeG
Her children of the labouring brainV
These are the champions of the raceA
True parents and the sole humaneV
With understanding for their baseA
Earth yields the milk but all her mindM
Is vowed to thresh for stouter stockY
Her passion for old giantkindM
That scaled the mount uphurled the rockY
Devolves on them who read arightM
Her meaning and devoutly serveF
Nor in her starlessness of nightM
Peruse her with the craven nerveF
But even as she from grass to cornB
To eagle high from grubbing moleZ
Prove in strong brain her noblest bornB
The station for the flight of soulZ

George Meredith



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