South-west Wind In The Woodland Poem Rhyme Scheme

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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
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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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