The Coming Storm Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CCDE FGHG IJEJ CEEE| A Picture by S R Gifford and owned by E B | A |
| Included in the N A Exhibition April | B |
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| All feeling hearts must feel for him | C |
| Who felt this picture Presage dim | C |
| Dim inklings from the shadowy sphere | D |
| Fixed him and fascinated here | E |
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| A demon cloud like the mountain one | F |
| Burst on a spirit as mild | G |
| As this urned lake the home of shades | H |
| But Shakspeare's pensive child | G |
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| Never the lines had lightly scanned | I |
| Steeped in fable steeped in fate | J |
| The Hamlet in his heart was 'ware | E |
| Such hearts can antedate | J |
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| No utter surprise can come to him | C |
| Who reaches Shakspeare's core | E |
| That which we seek and shun is there | E |
| Man's final lore | E |
Herman Melville
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