A Mountain Storm Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACCADDAEEAFFAGGAH H| OUR blue sierras shone serene sublime | A |
| When ghostly shapes came crowding up the air | B |
| Shadowing the landscape with some vast despair | B |
| And all was changed as in weird pantomime | A |
| Transfigured into vague fantastic form | C |
| By that tremendous carnival of storm | C |
| Pilgrim processions of bowed trees that climb | A |
| To sacred summits in the clashing hail | D |
| Shuddered like flagellants beneath the flail | D |
| Most gracious hills in that tempestuous time | A |
| Went wild as angered bulls with bellowing cry | E |
| And goring horns that strove to charge the sky | E |
| Masses of rock long gnawed by stealthy rime | A |
| With sudden roar that made our bravest blanch | F |
| Came volleying down in fatal avalanche | F |
| All nature seemed convulsed in some fierce crime | A |
| And then a rainbow and behold the sun | G |
| Went comforting the harebells one by one | G |
| And all was still save for the vesper chime | A |
| From far faint belfry bathed in creamy light | H |
| And the soft footfalls of the coming night | H |
Katharine Lee Bates
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