The Rain-crow Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCCBEEF A GHGHHGIIG A JKJKKJLLJ J MNMNNMOOM| I | A |
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| Can freckled August drowsing warm and blond | B |
| Beside a wheat shock in the white topped mead | C |
| In her hot hair the yellow daisies wound | D |
| O bird of rain lend aught but sleepy heed | C |
| To thee when no plumed weed no feathered seed | C |
| Blows by her and no ripple breaks the pond | B |
| That gleams like flint within its rim of grasses | E |
| Through which the dragonfly forever passes | E |
| Like splintered diamond | F |
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| II | A |
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| Drouth weights the trees and from the farmhouse eaves | G |
| The locust pulse beat of the summer day | H |
| Throbs and the lane that shambles under leaves | G |
| Limp with the heat a league of rutty way | H |
| Is lost in dust and sultry scents of hay | H |
| Breathe from the panting meadows heaped with sheaves | G |
| Now now O bird what hint is there of rain | I |
| In thirsty meadow or on burning plain | I |
| That thy keen eye perceives | G |
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| III | A |
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| But thou art right Thou prophesiest true | J |
| For hardly hast thou ceased thy forecasting | K |
| When up the western fierceness of scorched blue | J |
| Great water carrier winds their buckets bring | K |
| Brimming with freshness How their dippers ring | K |
| And flash and rumble lavishing large dew | J |
| On corn and forest land that streaming wet | L |
| Their hilly backs against the downpour set | L |
| Like giants loom in view | J |
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| IV | J |
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| The butterfly safe under leaf and flower | M |
| Has found a roof knowing how true thou art | N |
| The bumblebee within the last half hour | M |
| Has ceased to hug the honey to its heart | N |
| While in the barnyard under shed and cart | N |
| Brood hens have housed But I who scorned thy power | M |
| Barometer of birds like August there | O |
| Beneath a beech dripping from foot to hair | O |
| Like some drenched truant cower | M |
Madison Julius Cawein
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