Summer Studies. Iii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFF GHGHIJ KLKLMM NDNDOO| That solitary cloud grows dark and wide | A |
| While distant thunder rumbles in the air | B |
| A fitful ripple breaks the river's tide | A |
| The lazy cattle are no longer there | B |
| But homeward come in long procession slow | C |
| With many a bleat and many a plaintive low | C |
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| Darker and wider spreading o'er the west | D |
| Advancing clouds each in fantastic form | E |
| And mirror'd turrets on the river's breast | D |
| Tell in advance the coming of a storm | E |
| Closer and brighter glares the lightning's flash | F |
| And louder nearer sounds the thunder's crash | F |
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| The air of evening is intensely hot | G |
| The breeze feels heated as it fans my brows | H |
| Now sullen rain drops patter down like shot | G |
| Strike in the grass or rattle 'mid the boughs | H |
| A sultry lull and then a gust again | I |
| And now I see the thick advancing rain | J |
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| It fairly hisses as it comes along | K |
| And where it strikes bounds up again in spray | L |
| As if 'twere dancing to the fitful song | K |
| Made by the trees which twist themselves and sway | L |
| In contest with the wind which rises fast | M |
| Until the breeze becomes a furious blast | M |
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| And now the sudden fitful storm has fled | N |
| The clouds lie pil'd up in the splendid west | D |
| In massive shadow tipp'd with purplish red | N |
| Crimson or gold The scene is one of rest | D |
| And on the bosom of yon still lagoon | O |
| I see the crescent of the pallid moon | O |
James Barron Hope
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