The Night-wind Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABAABCC D EAEAEEAF D GHGHGGHII F AJAJAAJCCI 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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