Tales Of A Wayside Inn : Part 2. Finale Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCCBACDE EDFFGG HIJJHIKKEE LEELMNKKMN OPCOPC

'Nunc plaudite ' the Student criedA
When he had finished 'now applaudB
As Roman actors used to sayC
At the conclusion of a playC
And rose and spread his hands abroadB
And smiling bowed from side to sideA
As one who bears the palm awayC
And generous was the applause and loudD
But less for him than for the sunE
-
That even as the tale was doneE
Burst from its canopy of cloudD
And lit the landscape with the blazeF
Of afternoon on autumn daysF
And filled the room with light and madeG
The fire of logs a painted shadeG
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A sudden wind from out the westH
Blew all its trumpets loud and shrillI
The windows rattled with the blastJ
The oak trees shouted as it passedJ
And straight as if by fear possessedH
The cloud encampment on the hillI
Broke up and fluttering flag and tentK
Vanished into the firmamentK
And down the valley fled amainE
The rear of the retreating rainE
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Only far up in the blue skyL
A mass of clouds like drifted snowE
Suffused with a faint Alpine glowE
Was heaped together vast and highL
On which a shattered rainbow hungM
Not rising like the ruined archN
Of some aerial aqueductK
But like a roseate garland pluckedK
From an Olympian god and flungM
Aside in his triumphal marchN
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Like prisoners from their dungeon gloomO
Like birds escaping from a snareP
Like school boys at the hour of playC
All left at once the pent up roomO
And rushed into the open airP
And no more tales were told that dayC

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow



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