Before Storm Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE DGHG IJKJ| There's a grayness over the harbor like fear on the face of a woman | A |
| The sob of the waves has a sound akin to a woman's cry | B |
| And the deeps beyond the bar are moaning with evil presage | C |
| Of a storm that will leap from its lair in that dour north eastern sky | B |
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| Slowly the pale mists rise like ghosts of the sea in the offing | D |
| Creeping all wan and chilly by headland and sunken reef | E |
| And a wind is wailing and keening like a lost thing 'mid the islands | F |
| Boding of wreck and tempest plaining of dolor and grief | E |
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| Swiftly the boats come homeward over the grim bar crowding | D |
| Like birds that flee to their shelter in hurry and affright | G |
| Only the wild grey gulls that love the cloud and the clamor | H |
| Will dare to tempt the ways of the ravining sea to night | G |
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| But the ship that sailed at the dawning manned by the lads who love us | I |
| God help and pity her when the storm is loosed on her track | J |
| O women we pray to night and keep a vigil of sorrow | K |
| For those we speed at the dawning and may never welcome back | J |
Lucy Maud Montgomery
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