Storm-music Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDECFFGGHH IJIKJLMLMNOKON PFQF QPRSRSTSTTUVVU WWIIXXYS ZSZS HA2HA2 B2C2B2C2| O Music hast thou only heard | A |
| The laughing river the singing bird | A |
| The murmuring wind in the poplar trees | B |
| Nothing but Nature's melodies | B |
| Nay thou hearest all her tones | C |
| As a Queen must hear | D |
| Sounds of wrath and fear | E |
| Mutterings shouts and moans | C |
| Madness tumult and despair | F |
| All she has that shakes the air | F |
| With voices fierce and wild | G |
| Thou art a Queen and not a dreaming child | G |
| Put on thy crown and let us hear thee reign | H |
| Triumphant in a world of storm and strain | H |
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| Echo the long drawn sighs | I |
| Of the mounting wind in the pines | J |
| And the sobs of the mounting waves that rise | I |
| In the dark of the troubled deep | K |
| To break on the beach in fiery lines | J |
| Echo the far off roll of thunder | L |
| Rumbling loud | M |
| And ever louder under | L |
| The blue black curtain of cloud | M |
| Where the lightning serpents gleam | N |
| Echo the moaning | O |
| Of the forest in its sleep | K |
| Like a giant groaning | O |
| In the torment of a dream | N |
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| Now an interval of quiet | P |
| For a moment holds the air | F |
| In the breathless hush | Q |
| Of a silent prayer | F |
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| Then the sudden rush | Q |
| Of the rain and the riot | P |
| Of the shrieking tearing gale | R |
| Breaks loose in the night | S |
| With a fusillade of hail | R |
| Hear the forest fight | S |
| With its tossing arms that crack and clash | T |
| In the thunder's cannonade | S |
| While the lightning's forked flash | T |
| Brings the old hero trees to the ground with a crash | T |
| Hear the breakers' deepening roar | U |
| Driven like a herd of cattle | V |
| In the wild stampede of battle | V |
| Trampling trampling trampling to overwhelm the shore | U |
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| Is it the end of all | W |
| Will the land crumble and fall | W |
| Nay for a voice replies | I |
| Out of the hidden skies | I |
| quot Thus far O sea shalt thou go | X |
| So long O wind shalt thou blow | X |
| Return to your bounds and cease | Y |
| And let the earth have peace quot | S |
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| O Music lead the way | Z |
| The stormy night is past | S |
| Lift up our hearts to greet the day | Z |
| And the joy of things that last | S |
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| The dissonance and pain | H |
| That mortals must endure | A2 |
| Are changed in thine immortal strain | H |
| To something great and pure | A2 |
| - | |
| True love will conquer strife | B2 |
| And strength from conflict flows | C2 |
| For discord is the thorn of life | B2 |
| And harmony the rose | C2 |
Henry Van Dyke
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