Storm-music Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDECFFGGHH IJIKJLMLMNOKON PFQF QPRSRSTSTTUVVU WWIIXXYS ZSZS HA2HA2 B2C2B2C2O 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 |
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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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