South-west Wind In The Woodland Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRNS TUNVWXYZA2B2RZC2D2E2 F2F2G2H2I2 J2YF2K2J2L2M2F2I2LIN 2O2P2F2 Q2R2IS2T2F2U2V2W2X2F 2F2F2F2Y2F2Z2F2A2A3B 3F2C3F2D3F2RT2E3F3B3 RZ2G3SO2F2H3Z2F2F2 F2I3J3K3F2F2F2L3YM3F 2M3N3A3F2HO3G3F2P3F2 Q3R3| The silence of preluded song | A |
| AEolian silence charms the woods | B |
| Each tree a harp whose foliaged strings | C |
| Are waiting for the master's touch | D |
| To sweep them into storms of joy | E |
| Stands mute and whispers not the birds | F |
| Brood dumb in their foreboding nests | G |
| Save here and there a chirp or tweet | H |
| That utters fear or anxious love | I |
| Or when the ouzel sends a swift | J |
| Half warble shrinking back again | K |
| His golden bill or when aloud | L |
| The storm cock warns the dusking hills | M |
| And villages and valleys round | N |
| For lo beneath those ragged clouds | O |
| That skirt the opening west a stream | P |
| Of yellow light and windy flame | Q |
| Spreads lengthening southward and the sky | R |
| Begins to gloom and o'er the ground | N |
| A moan of coming blasts creeps low | S |
| And rustles in the crisping grass | T |
| Till suddenly with mighty arms | U |
| Outspread that reach the horizon round | N |
| The great South West drives o'er the earth | V |
| And loosens all his roaring robes | W |
| Behind him over heath and moor | X |
| He comes upon the neck of night | Y |
| Like one that leaps a fiery steed | Z |
| Whose keen black haunches quivering shine | A2 |
| With eagerness and haste that needs | B2 |
| No spur to make the dark leagues fly | R |
| Whose eyes are meteors of speed | Z |
| Whose mane is as a flashing foam | C2 |
| Whose hoofs are travelling thunder shocks | D2 |
| He comes and while his growing gusts | E2 |
| Wild couriers of his reckless course | F2 |
| Are whistling from the daggered gorse | F2 |
| And hurrying over fern and broom | G2 |
| Midway far off he feigns to halt | H2 |
| And gather in his streaming train | I2 |
| - | |
| Now whirring like an eagle's wing | J2 |
| Preparing for a wide blue flight | Y |
| Now flapping like a sail that tacks | F2 |
| And chides the wet bewildered mast | K2 |
| Now screaming like an anguish'd thing | J2 |
| Chased close by some down breathing beak | L2 |
| Now wailing like a breaking heart | M2 |
| That will not wholly break but hopes | F2 |
| With hope that knows itself in vain | I2 |
| Now threatening like a storm charged cloud | L |
| Now cooing like a woodland dove | I |
| Now up again in roar and wrath | N2 |
| High soaring and wide sweeping now | O2 |
| With sudden fury dashing down | P2 |
| Full force on the awaiting woods | F2 |
| - | |
| Long waited there for aspens frail | Q2 |
| That tinkle with a silver bell | R2 |
| To warn the Zephyr of their love | I |
| When danger is at hand and wake | S2 |
| The neighbouring boughs surrendering all | T2 |
| Their prophet harmony of leaves | F2 |
| Had caught his earliest windward thought | U2 |
| And told it trembling naked birk | V2 |
| Down showering her dishevelled hair | W2 |
| And like a beauty yielding up | X2 |
| Her fate to all the elements | F2 |
| Had swayed in answer hazels close | F2 |
| Thick brambles and dark brushwood tufts | F2 |
| And briared brakes that line the dells | F2 |
| With shaggy beetling brows had sung | Y2 |
| Shrill music while the tattered flaws | F2 |
| Tore over them and now the whole | Z2 |
| Tumultuous concords seized at once | F2 |
| With savage inspiration pine | A2 |
| And larch and beech and fir and thorn | A3 |
| And ash and oak and oakling rave | B3 |
| And shriek and shout and whirl and toss | F2 |
| And stretch their arms and split and crack | C3 |
| And bend their stems and bow their heads | F2 |
| And grind and groan and lion like | D3 |
| Roar to the echo peopled hills | F2 |
| And ravenous wilds and crake like cry | R |
| With harsh delight and cave like call | T2 |
| With hollow mouth and harp like thrill | E3 |
| With mighty melodies sublime | F3 |
| From clumps of column'd pines that wave | B3 |
| A lofty anthem to the sky | R |
| Fit music for a prophet's soul | Z2 |
| And like an ocean gathering power | G3 |
| And murmuring deep while down below | S |
| Reigns calm profound not trembling now | O2 |
| The aspens but like freshening waves | F2 |
| That fall upon a shingly beach | H3 |
| And round the oak a solemn roll | Z2 |
| Of organ harmony ascends | F2 |
| And in the upper foliage sounds | F2 |
| - | |
| A symphony of distant seas | F2 |
| The voice of nature is abroad | I3 |
| This night she fills the air with balm | J3 |
| Her mystery is o'er the land | K3 |
| And who that hears her now and yields | F2 |
| His being to her yearning tones | F2 |
| And seats his soul upon her wings | F2 |
| And broadens o'er the wind swept world | L3 |
| With her will gather in the flight | Y |
| More knowledge of her secret more | M3 |
| Delight in her beneficence | F2 |
| Than hours of musing or the lore | M3 |
| That lives with men could ever give | N3 |
| Nor will it pass away when morn | A3 |
| Shall look upon the lulling leaves | F2 |
| And woodland sunshine Eden sweet | H |
| Dreams o'er the paths of peaceful shade | O3 |
| For every elemental power | G3 |
| Is kindred to our hearts and once | F2 |
| Acknowledged wedded once embraced | P3 |
| Once taken to the unfettered sense | F2 |
| Once claspt into the naked life | Q3 |
| The union is eternal | R3 |
George Meredith
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