Storm-bound Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCD EFGHHG IIJKKJ LLMNNM OOPQQR SSOKKK TTUKKU VVWTTW BBTTTT| My careful plans all storm subdued | A |
| In disappointing solitude | A |
| The weary hours began | B |
| And scarce I deemed when time had sped | C |
| Marked only by the passing tread | C |
| Of some pedestrian | D |
| - | |
| But with the morrow's tranquil dawn | E |
| A fairy scene I looked upon | F |
| That filled me with delight | G |
| Far reaching from my own abode | H |
| The world in matchless splendor glowed | H |
| Arrayed in spotless white | G |
| - | |
| The surface of the hillside slope | I |
| Gleamed in my farthest vision's scope | I |
| Like opalescent stone | J |
| Rich jewels hung on every tree | K |
| Whose crystalline transparency | K |
| Golconda's gems outshone | J |
| - | |
| Beyond the line where wayside posts | L |
| Stood up like fear inspiring ghosts | L |
| Of awful form and mien | M |
| A mansion tall my neighbor's pride | N |
| A seeming castle fortified | N |
| Uprose in wondrous sheen | M |
| - | |
| The evergreens loomed up before | O |
| My staunch and storm defying door | O |
| Like snowy palaces | P |
| That one dare only penetrate | Q |
| With reverence as at Heaven's gate | Q |
| Awed by its mysteries | R |
| - | |
| The apple trees' extended arms | S |
| Upheld a thousand varied charms | S |
| The curious tracery | O |
| Of trellised grapevine seemed to me | K |
| A rare network of filigree | K |
| In silver drapery | K |
| - | |
| And I no longer thought it hard | T |
| From favorite pursuits debarred | T |
| Nor gazed with rueful face | U |
| For every object seemed to be | K |
| Invested with the witchery | K |
| Of magic art and grace | U |
| - | |
| And though a multitude of cares | V |
| Perplexing profitless affairs | V |
| Absorbed the hours it seems | W |
| That on the golden steps of thought | T |
| I mounted heavenward and wrought | T |
| Out many hopeful schemes | W |
| - | |
| Thus every day though it may span | B |
| The gulf wherein some cherished plan | B |
| Lies disarranged and crossed | T |
| If ere its close we shall have trod | T |
| The path that leads us nearer God | T |
| Cannot be counted lost | T |
Hattie Howard
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