The Night-wind Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABAABCC D EAEAEEAF D GHGHGGHII F AJAJAAJCC| I have heard the wind on a winter's night | A |
| When the snow cold moon looked icily through | B |
| My window's flickering firelight | A |
| Where the frost his witchery drew | B |
| I have heard the wind on a winter's night | A |
| Wandering ways that were frozen white | A |
| Wail in my chimney flue | B |
| And its voice was the voice so it seemed to me | C |
| The voice of the world's vast misery | C |
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| II | D |
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| I have heard the wind on a night of spring | E |
| When the leaves unclasped their girdles of gold | A |
| And the bird on the bough sang slumbering | E |
| In the lilac's fragrant fold | A |
| I have heard the wind on a night of spring | E |
| Shaking the musk from its dewy wing | E |
| Sigh in my garden old | A |
| And it seemed that it said as it sighed above | F |
| 'I am the voice of the Earth's great love ' | - |
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| III | D |
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| I have heard the wind on a night of fall | G |
| When a devil's dance was the rain's down pour | H |
| And the wild woods reeled to its demon call | G |
| And the carpet fluttered the floor | H |
| I have heard the wind on a night of fall | G |
| Heaping the leaves by the garden wall | G |
| Weep at my close shut door | H |
| And its voice so it seemed as it sorrowed there | I |
| Was the old old voice of the world's despair | I |
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| IV | F |
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| I have heard the wind on a summer night | A |
| When the myriad stars stormed heaven with fire | J |
| And the moon moth glimmered in phantom flight | A |
| And the crickets creaked in choir | J |
| I have heard the wind on a summer night | A |
| Rocking the red rose and the white | A |
| Murmur in bloom and brier | J |
| And its voice was the voice so it seemed to me | C |
| Of Earth's primordial mystery | C |
Madison Julius Cawein
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