Hard Weather Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBAACACDEDE FGFGHIHIAJAJKAKA ILILIIIIMNMNAAAA IAIAOPOPPOQRRQRQIIII STST AAAAAAJUJUVIVIWIWIFX FGVAVAMYMYMFMFBZBZ| Bursts from a rending East in flaws | A |
| The young green leaflet's harrier sworn | B |
| To strew the garden strip the shaws | A |
| And show our Spring with banner torn | B |
| Was ever such virago morn | B |
| The wind has teeth the wind has claws | A |
| All the wind's wolves through woods are loose | A |
| The wild wind's falconry aloft | C |
| Shrill underfoot the grassblade shrews | A |
| At gallop clumped and down the croft | C |
| Bestrid by shadows beaten tossed | D |
| It seems a scythe it seems a rod | E |
| The howl is up at the howl's accost | D |
| The shivers greet and the shivers nod | E |
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| Is the land ship we are rolled we drive | F |
| Tritonly cleaving hiss and hum | G |
| Whirl with the dead or mount or dive | F |
| Or down in dregs or on in scum | G |
| And drums the distant pipes the near | H |
| And vale and hill are grey in grey | I |
| As when the surge is crumbling sheer | H |
| And sea mews wing the haze of spray | I |
| Clouds are they bony witches swarms | A |
| Darting swift on the robber's flight | J |
| Hurry an infant sky in arms | A |
| It peeps it becks 'tis day 'tis night | J |
| Black while over the loop of blue | K |
| The swathe is closed like shroud on corse | A |
| Lo as if swift the Furies flew | K |
| The Fates at heel at a cry to horse | A |
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| Interpret me the savage whirr | I |
| And is it Nature scourged or she | L |
| Her offspring's executioner | I |
| Reducing land to barren sea | L |
| But is there meaning in a day | I |
| When this fierce angel of the air | I |
| Intent to throw and haply slay | I |
| Can for what breath of life we bear | I |
| Exact the wrestle Call to mind | M |
| The many meanings glistening up | N |
| When Nature to her nurslings kind | M |
| Hands them the fruitage and the cup | N |
| And seek we rich significance | A |
| Not otherwhere than with those tides | A |
| Of pleasure on the sunned expanse | A |
| Whose flow deludes whose ebb derides | A |
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| Look in the face of men who fare | I |
| Lock mouthed a match in lungs and thews | A |
| For this fierce angel of the air | I |
| To twist with him and take his bruise | A |
| That is the face beloved of old | O |
| Of Earth young mother of her brood | P |
| Nor broken for us shows the mould | O |
| When muscle is in mind renewed | P |
| Though farther from her nature rude | P |
| Yet nearer to her spirit's hold | O |
| And though of gentler mood serene | Q |
| Still forceful of her fountain jet | R |
| So shall her blows be shrewdly met | R |
| Be luminously read the scene | Q |
| Where Life is at her grindstone set | R |
| That she may give us edgeing keen | Q |
| String us for battle till as play | I |
| The common strokes of fortune shower | I |
| Such meaning in a dagger day | I |
| Our wits may clasp to wax in power | I |
| Yea feel us warmer at her breast | S |
| By spin of blood in lusty drill | T |
| Than when her honeyed hands caressed | S |
| And Pleasure sapping seemed to fill | T |
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| Behold the life at ease it drifts | A |
| The sharpened life commands its course | A |
| She winnows winnows roughly sifts | A |
| To dip her chosen in her source | A |
| Contention is the vital force | A |
| Whence pluck they brain her prize of gifts | A |
| Sky of the senses on which height | J |
| Not disconnected yet released | U |
| They see how spirit comes to light | J |
| Through conquest of the inner beast | U |
| Which Measure tames to movement sane | V |
| In harmony with what is fair | I |
| Never is Earth misread by brain | V |
| That is the welling of her there | I |
| The mirror with one step beyond | W |
| For likewise is it voice and more | I |
| Benignest kinship bids respond | W |
| When wail the weak and them restore | I |
| Whom days as fell as this may rive | F |
| While Earth sits ebon in her gloom | X |
| Us atomies of life alive | F |
| Unheeding bent on life to come | G |
| Her children of the labouring brain | V |
| These are the champions of the race | A |
| True parents and the sole humane | V |
| With understanding for their base | A |
| Earth yields the milk but all her mind | M |
| Is vowed to thresh for stouter stock | Y |
| Her passion for old giantkind | M |
| That scaled the mount uphurled the rock | Y |
| Devolves on them who read aright | M |
| Her meaning and devoutly serve | F |
| Nor in her starlessness of night | M |
| Peruse her with the craven nerve | F |
| But even as she from grass to corn | B |
| To eagle high from grubbing mole | Z |
| Prove in strong brain her noblest born | B |
| The station for the flight of soul | Z |
George Meredith
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