A Rune Of The Rain Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCDD EFGGHHIIFJKLLKKMNMOP KKKKKKB CGCBGBKBKMMBBGG QQBRNBRBRB CC A BBBBNNSTTCCUUS A BBBVVNNBWWBXGXGTYYB Z YYA2A2YYKKCYCYB2A2A2 B2A2C2C2A2BBI | A |
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O many toned rain | B |
O myriad sweet voices of the rain | B |
How welcome is its delicate overture | C |
At evening when the glowing moistur'd west | D |
Seals all things with cool promise of night's rest | D |
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At first it would allure | E |
The earth to kinder mood | F |
With dainty flattering | G |
Of soft sweet pattering | G |
Faintly now you hear the tramp | H |
Of the fine drops falling damp | H |
On the dry sun seasoned ground | I |
And the thirsty leaves around | I |
But anon imbued | F |
With a sudden bounding access | J |
Of passion it relaxes | K |
All timider persuasion | L |
And with nor pretext nor occasion | L |
Its wooing redoubles | K |
And pounds the ground and bubbles | K |
In sputtering spray | M |
Flinging itself in a fury | N |
Of flashing white away | M |
Till the dusty road | O |
Flings a perfume dank abroad | P |
And the grass and the wide hung trees | K |
The vines the flowers in their beds | K |
The vivid corn that to the breeze | K |
Rustles along the garden rows | K |
Visibly lift their heads | K |
And as the shower wilder grows | K |
Upleap with answering kisses to the rain | B |
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Then the slow and pleasant murmur | C |
Of its subsiding | G |
As the pulse of the storm beats firmer | C |
And the steady rain | B |
Drops into a cadenced chiding | G |
Deep breathing rain | B |
The sad and ghostly noise | K |
Wherewith thou dost complain | B |
Thy plaintive spiritual voice | K |
Heard thus at close of day | M |
Through vaults of twilight gray | M |
Doth vex me with sweet pain | B |
And still my soul is fain | B |
To know the secret of that yearning | G |
Which in thine utterance I hear returning | G |
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Hush oh hush | Q |
Break not the dreamy rush | Q |
Of the rain | B |
Touch not the marring doubt | R |
Words bring to the certainty | N |
Of its soft refrain | B |
But let the flying fringes flout | R |
Their gouts against the pane | B |
And the gurgling throat of the water spout | R |
Groan in the eaves amain | B |
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The earth is wedded to the shower | C |
Darkness and awe gird round the bridal hour | C |
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II | A |
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O many toned rain | B |
It hath caught the strain | B |
Of a wilder tune | B |
Ere the same night's noon | B |
When dreams and sleep forsake me | N |
And sudden dread doth wake me | N |
To hear the booming drums of heaven beat | S |
The long roll to battle when the knotted cloud | T |
With an echoing loud | T |
Bursts asunder | C |
At the sudden resurrection of the thunder | C |
And the fountains of the air | U |
Unsealed again sweep ruining everywhere | U |
To wrap the world in a watery winding sheet | S |
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III | A |
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O myriad sweet voices of the rain | B |
When the airy war doth wane | B |
And the storm to the east hath flown | B |
Cloaked close in the whirling wind | V |
There's a voice still left behind | V |
In each heavy hearted tree | N |
Charged with tearful memory | N |
Of the vanished rain | B |
From their leafy lashes wet | W |
Drip the dews of fresh regret | W |
For the lover that's gone | B |
All else is still | X |
But the stars are listening | G |
And low o'er the wooded hill | X |
Hangs upon listless wing | G |
Outspread a shape of damp blue cloud | T |
Watching like a bird of evil | Y |
That knows no mercy nor reprieval | Y |
The slow and silent death of the pallid moon | B |
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IV | Z |
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But soon returning duly | Y |
Dawn whitens the wet hill tops bluely | Y |
To her vision pure and cold | A2 |
The night's wild tale is told | A2 |
On the glistening leaf in the mid road pool | Y |
The garden mold turned dark and cool | Y |
And the meadow's trampled acres | K |
But hark how fresh the song of the winged music makers | K |
For now the moanings bitter | C |
Left by the rain make harmony | Y |
With the swallow's matin twitter | C |
And the robin's note like the wind's in a tree | Y |
The infant morning breathes sweet breath | B2 |
And with it is blent | A2 |
The wistful wild moist scent | A2 |
Of the grass in the marsh which the sea nourisheth | B2 |
And behold | A2 |
The last reluctant drop of the storm | C2 |
Wrung from the roof is smitten warm | C2 |
And turned to gold | A2 |
For in its veins doth run | B |
The very blood of the bold unsullied sun | B |
George Parsons Lathrop
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