Winter Westerlies Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCA DEED FGGH IJJI KLLK MNNM| Leaning against the wind across the paddock ways | A |
| comes Dan home with forward stoop like a man bent and old | B |
| clashes the door in haste as one pursued 'By Christ it's cold ' | C |
| and crooks his fingers to the blaze | A |
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| We do not live these days but each exhausting day | D |
| unnerved we numbly wait return of life and must abide | E |
| the wind the still beleaguering wind all voices else outside | E |
| imperioulsy it has blown away | D |
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| Over the bronze brown paddocks the grass is bowed flat down | F |
| along the birdless creek a cold malevolence has passed | G |
| a forlorn sparrow clings on the fence against the icy blast | G |
| his soft breast feathers loosely blown | H |
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| We watch the saplings buffeted without repose | I |
| their foliage all on one side plunging without rest | J |
| stems leaning all one way from the assailing west | J |
| bending as backs cower from blows | I |
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| The hunched cattle no longer feeding dejected stand | K |
| with dumb endurance tails to the flogging wind hour after hour | L |
| from some far frozen hell of winds a blind and souless power | L |
| invades and harries all the land | K |
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| The Wind The Wind It fumbles at the fastened panes | M |
| fills and posseses all a tyranny without control | N |
| ceaseless changeless malign searching into the very soul | N |
| the rushing desolation reigns | M |
James Martin Devaney
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