Storm-bound Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCD EFGHHG IIJKKJ LLMNNM OOPQQR SSOKKK TTUKKU VVWTTW BBTTTTMy 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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