Storm-music Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDECFFGGHH IJIKJLMLMNOKON PFQF QPRSRSTSTTUVVU WWIIXXYS ZSZS HA2HA2 B2C2B2C2

O Music hast thou only heardA
The laughing river the singing birdA
The murmuring wind in the poplar treesB
Nothing but Nature's melodiesB
Nay thou hearest all her tonesC
As a Queen must hearD
Sounds of wrath and fearE
Mutterings shouts and moansC
Madness tumult and despairF
All she has that shakes the airF
With voices fierce and wildG
Thou art a Queen and not a dreaming childG
Put on thy crown and let us hear thee reignH
Triumphant in a world of storm and strainH
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Echo the long drawn sighsI
Of the mounting wind in the pinesJ
And the sobs of the mounting waves that riseI
In the dark of the troubled deepK
To break on the beach in fiery linesJ
Echo the far off roll of thunderL
Rumbling loudM
And ever louder underL
The blue black curtain of cloudM
Where the lightning serpents gleamN
Echo the moaningO
Of the forest in its sleepK
Like a giant groaningO
In the torment of a dreamN
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Now an interval of quietP
For a moment holds the airF
In the breathless hushQ
Of a silent prayerF
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Then the sudden rushQ
Of the rain and the riotP
Of the shrieking tearing galeR
Breaks loose in the nightS
With a fusillade of hailR
Hear the forest fightS
With its tossing arms that crack and clashT
In the thunder's cannonadeS
While the lightning's forked flashT
Brings the old hero trees to the ground with a crashT
Hear the breakers' deepening roarU
Driven like a herd of cattleV
In the wild stampede of battleV
Trampling trampling trampling to overwhelm the shoreU
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Is it the end of allW
Will the land crumble and fallW
Nay for a voice repliesI
Out of the hidden skiesI
quot Thus far O sea shalt thou goX
So long O wind shalt thou blowX
Return to your bounds and ceaseY
And let the earth have peace quotS
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O Music lead the wayZ
The stormy night is pastS
Lift up our hearts to greet the dayZ
And the joy of things that lastS
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The dissonance and painH
That mortals must endureA2
Are changed in thine immortal strainH
To something great and pureA2
-
True love will conquer strifeB2
And strength from conflict flowsC2
For discord is the thorn of lifeB2
And harmony the roseC2

Henry Van Dyke



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