The Shower Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEG EEEE CCCC| The landscape like the awed face of a child | A |
| Grew curiously blurred a hush of death | B |
| Fell on the fields and in the darkened wild | A |
| The zephyr held its breath | B |
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| No wavering glamour work of light and shade | C |
| Dappled the shivering surface of the brook | D |
| The frightened ripples in their ambuscade | C |
| Of willows thrilled and shook | D |
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| The sullen day grew darker and anon | E |
| Dim flashes of pent anger lit the sky | F |
| With rumbling wheels of wrath came rolling on | E |
| The storm's artillery | G |
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| The cloud above put on its blackest frown | E |
| And then as with a vengeful cry of pain | E |
| The lightning snatched it ripped and flung it down | E |
| In ravelled shreds of rain | E |
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| While I transfigured by some wondrous art | C |
| Bowed with the thirsty lilies to the sod | C |
| My empty soul brimmed over and my heart | C |
| Drenched with the love of God | C |
James Whitcomb Riley
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