Hard Weather Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBAACACDEDE FGFGHIHIAJAJKAKA ILILIIIIMNMNAAAA IAIAOPOPPOQRRQRQIIII STST AAAAAAJUJUVIVIWIWIFX FGVAVAMYMYMFMFBZBZBursts 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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