The Rain Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABAB ACAC AAAA DEDB DFDF GAGA DHDH FIFI JDJD KAKA ADAD

We stood where the fields were tawnyA
Where the redolent woodland was warmB
And the summer above us now lawnyA
Was alive with the pulse winds of stormB
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And we watched weak wheat waves lightenA
And wince and hiss at each gustC
And the turbulent maples whitenA
And the lane grow gray with dustC
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White flakes from the blossoming cherryA
Pink snows of the peaches were blownA
And star fair blooms of the berryA
And the dogwood's flowers were strewnA
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And the luminous hillocks grew sulliedD
And shadowed and thrilled with alarmE
When the body of the blackness was gulliedD
With the rapid keen flame of the stormB
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And the birds to dry coverts had hurriedD
And the musical rillet ran slowF
And the buccaneer bee was worriedD
And the red lilies swung to and froF
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Till the elf cuirassiers of the showersG
Came bright with slant lances of rainA
And charged the bare heads of the flowersG
And trampled the grass of the plainA
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And the armies of the leaves were shatteredD
Their standards drenched heavy and lankH
And the iron weed's purple was spatteredD
And the lily lay broke on the bankH
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But high in the storm was the swallowF
And the rain strong voice of the fallI
In the bough grottoed dingle sang hollowF
To the sky blue flags on its wallI
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But the storm and its clouds passed overJ
And left but one cloud in the WestD
Wet wafts that were fragrant with cloverJ
And the sun low sunken to restD
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Soft spices of rain studded poppiesK
Of honey unfilched of a beeA
And balm of the mead and the coppiceK
And musk of the rain breathing treeA
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Then the cloud in the West was rivenA
And bubbled and bursten with goldD
Blown out through deep gorges of heavenA
And spilled on the wood and the woldD

Madison Julius Cawein



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