The Cloud Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFEF GHIH GJGJ AKJK ELEL MANA| The islands called me far away | A |
| The valleys called me home | B |
| The rivers with a silver voice | C |
| Drew on my heart to come | D |
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| The paths reached tendrils to my hair | E |
| From every vine and tree | F |
| There was no refuge anywhere | E |
| Until I came to thee | F |
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| There is a northern cloud I know | G |
| Along a mountain crest | H |
| And as she folds her wings of mist | I |
| So I could make my rest | H |
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| There is no chain to bind her so | G |
| Unto that purple height | J |
| And she will shine and wander slow | G |
| Slow with a cloud's delight | J |
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| Would she begone She melts away | A |
| A heavenly joyous thing | K |
| Yet day will find the mountain white | J |
| White folded with her wing | K |
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| As you may see but half aware | E |
| If it be late or soon | L |
| Soft breathing on the day time air | E |
| The fair forgotten Moon | L |
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| And though love cannot bind me Love | M |
| Ah no yet I could stay | A |
| Maybe with wings forever spread | N |
| Forever and a day | A |
Josephine Preston Peabody
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