The Hut By The Black Swamp Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABB CDCDD EFGFF HIHII JKJKK LMNOM PQPQQ QQQQQ QRQRR STSTT UVUVV WXWXX LYLYY ZQZQQ| Now comes the fierce north easter bound | A |
| About with clouds and racks of rain | B |
| And dry dead leaves go whirling round | A |
| In rings of dust and sigh like pain | B |
| Across the plain | B |
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| Now twilight with a shadowy hand | C |
| Of wild dominionship doth keep | D |
| Strong hold of hollow straits of land | C |
| And watery sounds are loud and deep | D |
| By gap and steep | D |
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| Keen fitful gusts that fly before | E |
| The wings of storm when day hath shut | F |
| Its eyes on mountains flaw by flaw | G |
| Fleet down by whistling box tree butt | F |
| Against the hut | F |
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| And ringed and girt with lurid pomp | H |
| Far eastern cliffs start up and take | I |
| Thick steaming vapours from a swamp | H |
| That lieth like a great blind lake | I |
| Of face opaque | I |
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| The moss that like a tender grief | J |
| About an English ruin clings | K |
| What time the wan autumnal leaf | J |
| Faints after many wanderings | K |
| On windy wings | K |
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| That gracious growth whose quiet green | L |
| Is as a love in days austere | M |
| Was never seen hath never been | N |
| On slab or roof deserted here | O |
| For many a year | M |
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| Nor comes the bird whose speech is song | P |
| Whose songs are silvery syllables | Q |
| That unto glimmering woods belong | P |
| And deep meandering mountain dells | Q |
| By yellow wells | Q |
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| But rather here the wild dog halts | Q |
| And lifts the paw and looks and howls | Q |
| And here in ruined forest vaults | Q |
| Abide dim dark death featured owls | Q |
| Like monks in cowls | Q |
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| Across this hut the nettle runs | Q |
| And livid adders make their lair | R |
| In corners dank from lack of suns | Q |
| And out of foetid furrows stare | R |
| The growths that scare | R |
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| Here Summer's grasp of fire is laid | S |
| On bark and slabs that rot and breed | T |
| Squat ugly things of deadly shade | S |
| The scorpion and the spiteful seed | T |
| Of centipede | T |
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| Unhallowed thunders harsh and dry | U |
| And flaming noontides mute with heat | V |
| Beneath the breathless brazen sky | U |
| Upon these rifted rafters beat | V |
| With torrid feet | V |
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| And night by night the fitful gale | W |
| Doth carry past the bittern's boom | X |
| The dingo's yell the plover's wail | W |
| While lumbering shadows start and loom | X |
| And hiss through gloom | X |
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| No sign of grace no hope of green | L |
| Cool blossomed seasons marks the spot | Y |
| But chained to iron doom I ween | L |
| 'Tis left like skeleton to rot | Y |
| Where ruth is not | Y |
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| For on this hut hath murder writ | Z |
| With bloody fingers hellish things | Q |
| And God will never visit it | Z |
| With flower or leaf of sweet faced Springs | Q |
| Or gentle wings | Q |
Henry Kendall
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