The Rain Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB ACAC AAAA DEDB DFDF GAGA DHDH FIFI JDJD KAKA ADADWe stood where the fields were tawny | A |
Where the redolent woodland was warm | B |
And the summer above us now lawny | A |
Was alive with the pulse winds of storm | B |
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And we watched weak wheat waves lighten | A |
And wince and hiss at each gust | C |
And the turbulent maples whiten | A |
And the lane grow gray with dust | C |
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White flakes from the blossoming cherry | A |
Pink snows of the peaches were blown | A |
And star fair blooms of the berry | A |
And the dogwood's flowers were strewn | A |
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And the luminous hillocks grew sullied | D |
And shadowed and thrilled with alarm | E |
When the body of the blackness was gullied | D |
With the rapid keen flame of the storm | B |
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And the birds to dry coverts had hurried | D |
And the musical rillet ran slow | F |
And the buccaneer bee was worried | D |
And the red lilies swung to and fro | F |
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Till the elf cuirassiers of the showers | G |
Came bright with slant lances of rain | A |
And charged the bare heads of the flowers | G |
And trampled the grass of the plain | A |
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And the armies of the leaves were shattered | D |
Their standards drenched heavy and lank | H |
And the iron weed's purple was spattered | D |
And the lily lay broke on the bank | H |
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But high in the storm was the swallow | F |
And the rain strong voice of the fall | I |
In the bough grottoed dingle sang hollow | F |
To the sky blue flags on its wall | I |
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But the storm and its clouds passed over | J |
And left but one cloud in the West | D |
Wet wafts that were fragrant with clover | J |
And the sun low sunken to rest | D |
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Soft spices of rain studded poppies | K |
Of honey unfilched of a bee | A |
And balm of the mead and the coppice | K |
And musk of the rain breathing tree | A |
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Then the cloud in the West was riven | A |
And bubbled and bursten with gold | D |
Blown out through deep gorges of heaven | A |
And spilled on the wood and the wold | D |
Madison Julius Cawein
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