What The Wind Said Poem Rhyme Scheme

Recent Interactions*

This poem was read 143 times,

This poem was added to the favorite list by 0 members,

This poem was voted by 0 members.

(* Interactions only in the last 7 days)

New Poems

Wonderful Women
by Umaru Kanneh Boima
Freedom To Scratch In Peace
by Olute Aete
Happy New Year
by Felix Menda
Human Beings
by Dana Graslie
Lust
by Wisdom Greatness
An Isolated Tree's Song
by Sayeed Abubakar
A Strange Boy
by Sayeed Abubakar
O Soil
by Sayeed Abubakar
No War, No War-monger
by Sayeed Abubakar
Night's Town
by Sayeed Abubakar

Popular Poets

1. Emily Dickinson(2414 poems)
2. Madison Julius Cawein(1231 poems)
3. Ella Wheeler Wilcox(1136 poems)
4. William Wordsworth(1016 poems)
5. Robert Burns(986 poems)
6. Edgar Albert Guest(945 poems)
7. Thomas Moore(849 poems)
8. Robert Service(831 poems)

'I muse to day in a listless way	A
In the gleam of a summer land	B
I close my eyes as a lover may	A
At the touch of his sweetheart's hand	B
And I hear these things in the whisperings	C
Of the zephyrs round me fanned'	B
	-
I am the Wind and I rule mankind	B
And I hold a sovereign reign	D
Over the lands as God designed	B
And the waters they contain	D
Lo the bound of the wide world round	B
Falleth in my domain	D
	-
I was born on a stormy morn	E
In a kingdom walled with snow	F
Whose crystal cities laugh to scorn	E
The proudest the world can show	F
And the daylight's glare is frozen there	G
In the breath of the blasts that blow	F
	-
Life to me was a jubilee	H
From the first of my youthful days	C
Clinking my icy toys with glee	H
Playing my childish plays	C
Filling my hands with the silver sands	C
To scatter a thousand ways	C
	-
Chasing the flakes that the Polar shakes	C
From his shaggy coat of white	B
Or hunting the trace of the track he makes	C
And sweeping it from sight	B
As he turned to glare from the slippery stair	G
Of the iceberg's farthest height	B
	-
Till I grew so strong that I strayed ere long	I
From my home of ice and chill	J
With an eager heart and a merry song	I
I traveled the snows until	J
I heard the thaws in the ice crag's jaws	C
Crunched with a hungry will	J
	-
And the angry crash of the waves that dash	K
Themselves on the jagged shore	L
Where the splintered masts of the ice wrecks flash	K
And the frightened breakers roar	L
In wild unrest on the ocean's breast	B
For a thousand leagues or more	L
	-
And the grand old sea invited me	H
With a million beckoning hands	C
And I spread my wings for a flight as free	H
As ever a sailor plans	C
When his thoughts are wild and his heart beguiled	B
With the dreams of foreign lands	C
	-
I passed a ship on its homeward trip	M
With a weary and toil worn crew	N
And I kissed their flag with a welcome lip	M
And so glad a gale I blew	N
That the sailors quaffed their grog and laughed	B
At the work I made them do	N
	-
I drifted by where sea groves lie	O
Like brides in the fond caress	C
Of the warm sunshine and the tender sky	O
Where the ocean passionless	C
And tranquil lies like a child whose eyes	C
Are blurred with drowsiness	C
	-
I drank the air and the perfume there	G
And bathed in a fountain's spray	A
And I smoothed the wings and the plumage rare	G
Of a bird for his roundelay	O
And fluttered a rag from a signal crag	O
For a wretched castaway	A
	-
With a sea gull resting on my breast	B
I launched on a madder flight	B
And I lashed the waves to a wild unrest	B
And howled with a fierce delight	B
Till the daylight slept and I wailed and wept	B
Like a fretful babe all night	B
	-
For I heard the boom of a gun strike doom	P
And the gleam of a blood red star	Q
Glared at me through the mirk and gloom	P
From the lighthouse tower afar	Q
And I held my breath at the shriek of death	R
That came from the harbor bar	Q
	-
For I am the Wind and I rule mankind	B
And I hold a sovereign reign	D
Over the lands as God designed	B
And the waters they contain	D
Lo the bound of the wide world round	B
Falleth in my domain	D
	-
I journeyed on when the night was gone	S
O'er a coast of oak and pine	T
And I followed a path that a stream had drawn	S
Through a land of vale and vine	T
And here and there was a village fair	G
In a nest of shade and shine	T
	-
I passed o'er lakes where the sunshine shakes	C
And shivers his golden lance	C
On the glittering shield of the wave that breaks	C
Where the fish boats dip and dance	C
And the trader sails where the mist unveils	C
The glory of old romance	C
	-
I joyed to stand where the jeweled hand	B
Of the maiden morning lies	C
On the tawny brow of the mountain land	B
Where the eagle shrieks and cries	C
And holds his throne to himself alone	U
From the light of human eyes	C
	-
Adown deep glades where the forest shades	C
Are dim as the dusk of day	A
Where only the foot of the wild beast wades	C
Or the Indian dares to stray	A
As the blacksnakes glide through the reeds and hide	B
In the swamp depths grim and gray	A
	-
And I turned and fled from the place of dread	B
To the far off haunts of men	V
'In the city's heart is rest ' I said	B
But I found it not and when	V
I saw but care and vice reign there	G
I was filled with wrath again	V
	-
And I blew a spark in the midnight dark	O
Till it flashed to an angry flame	W
And scarred the sky with a lurid mark	O
As red as the blush of shame	W
And a hint of hell was the dying yell	O
That up from the ruins came	W
	-
The bells went wild and the black smoke piled	B
Its pillars against the night	B
Till I gathered them like flocks defiled	B
And scattered them left and right	B
While the holocaust's red tresses tossed	B
As a maddened Fury's might	B
	-
'Ye overthrown ' did I jeer and groan	U
'Ho who is your master say	A
Ye shapes that writhe in the slag and moan	U
Your slow charred souls away	A
Ye worse than worst of things accurst	B
Ye dead leaves of a day '	-
	-
I am the Wind and I rule mankind	B
And I hold a sovereign reign	D
Over the lands as God designed	B
And the waters they contain	D
Lo the bound of the wide world round	B
Falleth in my domain	D
	-
	-
	-
'I wake as one from a dream half done	X
And gaze with a dazzled eye	O
On an autumn leaf like a scrap of sun	X
That the wind goes whirling by	O
While afar I hear with a chill of fear	Y
The winter storm king sigh '	-

James Whitcomb Riley

What The Wind Said Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Write your comment about What The Wind Said poem by James Whitcomb Riley

Recent Interactions*

New Poems

Popular Poets