To The Clouds Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBABBCACADEAEDFAF FD| O painted clouds sweet beauties of the sky | A |
| How have I view'd your motion and your rest | B |
| When like fleet hunters ye have left mine eye | A |
| In your thin gauze of woolly fleecing drest | B |
| Or in your threaten'd thunder's grave black vest | B |
| Like black deep waters slowly moving by | A |
| Awfully striking the spectator's breast | B |
| With your Creator's dread sublimity | B |
| As admiration mutely views your storms | C |
| And I do love to see you idly lie | A |
| Painted by heav'n as various as your forms | C |
| Pausing upon the eastern mountain high | A |
| As morn awakes with spring's wood harmony | D |
| And sweeter still when in your slumbers sooth | E |
| You hang the western arch o'er day's proud eye | A |
| Still as the even pool uncurv'd and smooth | E |
| My gazing soul has look'd most placidly | D |
| And higher still devoutly wish'd to strain | F |
| To wipe your shrouds and sky's blue blinders by | A |
| With all the warmness of a moon struck brain | F |
| To catch a glimpse of Him who bids you reign | F |
| And view the dwelling of all majesty | D |
John Clare
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