Poet Madison Julius Cawein

Madison Julius Cawein

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Night And Rain Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEG HIHI JKJB ILIL M M NOP Q Q RS

The night has set her outposts thereA
Of wind and rainB
And to and fro with ragged hairA
At intervals they search the paneB
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The fir trees creepers redly climbC
That seem to bleedD
Like old conspirators in crimeC
Drip whispering of some desperate deedD
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'Tis as if wild skirts flying fastE
Besieged the houseF
The wittol grass bent to the blastE
Whines as if witches held carouseG
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And now dark feet steal to the doorH
And tap and tipI
Shuffle and then go on once moreH
The eaves keep a persistent dripI
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And then a skurry and a boundJ
Wild feet againK
A wind wrenched tree that to the groundJ
Sweeps instantly its weight of rainB
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What is it finger on its lipI
That up and downL
Treads with dark raiment all a dripI
Trailing a tattered leaf of gownL
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'O father I am frightened SeeM
There at the pane '-
'Hush hush my child 'tis but a treeM
That tosses in the wind and rain '-
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A rumble as it were of hoofsN
And hollow callO
'O father what rolls on the roofsP
That sounds like some dark funeral '-
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'Hush hush my child it is the stormQ
The autumn wind '-
'But father see what is that formQ
There wild against the window blind '-
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'It is the firelight in the room '-
The father sighedR
And then the child ''Twas dark as doomS
And had the face of her who died '-

Madison Julius Cawein



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