The Cyclone Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE BFBF GBGB HIHI JKJK| So lone I stood the very trees seemed drawn | A |
| In conference with themselves Intense intense | B |
| Seemed everything the summer splendor on | C |
| The sight magnificence | B |
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| A babe's life might not lighter fail and die | D |
| Than failed the sunlight Though the hour was noon | E |
| The palm of midnight might not lighter lie | D |
| Upon the brow of June | E |
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| With eyes upraised I saw the underwings | B |
| Of swallows gone the instant afterward | F |
| While from the elms there came strange twitterings | B |
| Stilled scarce ere they were heard | F |
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| The river seemed to shiver and far down | G |
| Its darkened length I saw the sycamores | B |
| Lean inward closer under the vast frown | G |
| That weighed above the shores | B |
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| Then was a roar born of some awful burst | H |
| And one lay shrieking chattering in my path | I |
| Flung he or I out of some space accurst | H |
| As of Jehovah's wrath | I |
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| Nor barely had he wreaked his latest prayer | J |
| Ere back the noon flashed o'er the ruin done | K |
| And o'er uprooted forests touseled there | J |
| The birds sang in the sun | K |
James Whitcomb Riley
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