Storm On Lake Asquam Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCA DEED FGGF HIJH CKKC LMML| A cloud like that the old time Hebrew saw | A |
| On Carmel prophesying rain began | B |
| To lift itself o'er wooded Cardigan | C |
| Growing and blackening Suddenly a flaw | A |
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| Of chill wind menaced then a strong blast beat | D |
| Down the long valley's murmuring pines and woke | E |
| The noon dream of the sleeping lake and broke | E |
| Its smooth steel mirror at the mountains' feet | D |
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| Thunderous and vast a fire veined darkness swept | F |
| Over the rough pine bearded Asquam range | G |
| A wraith of tempest wonderful and strange | G |
| From peak to peak the cloudy giant stepped | F |
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| One moment as if challenging the storm | H |
| Chocorua's tall defiant sentinel | I |
| Looked from his watch tower then the shadow fell | J |
| And the wild rain drift blotted out his form | H |
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| And over all the still unhidden sun | C |
| Weaving its light through slant blown veils of rain | K |
| Smiled on the trouble as hope smiles on pain | K |
| And when the tumult and the strife were done | C |
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| With one foot on the lake and one on land | L |
| Framing within his crescent's tinted streak | M |
| A far off picture of the Melvin peak | M |
| Spent broken clouds the rainbow's angel spanned | L |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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