The Wind Of Winter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABAB CDCDCD EFGHEH IJIJIJ KLKLKL MNMNMN OPOPQP| The Winter Wind the wind of death | A |
| Who knocked upon my door | B |
| Now through the keyhole entereth | A |
| Invisible and hoar | B |
| He breathes around his icy breath | A |
| And treads the flickering floor | B |
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| I heard him wandering in the night | C |
| Tap at my windowpane | D |
| With ghostly fingers snowy white | C |
| I heard him tug in vain | D |
| Until the shuddering candlelight | C |
| Did cringe with fear and strain | D |
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| The fire awakened by his voice | E |
| Leapt up with frantic arms | F |
| Like some wild babe that greets with noise | G |
| Its father home who storms | H |
| With rosy gestures that rejoice | E |
| And crimson kiss that warms | H |
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| Now in the hearth he sits and drowned | I |
| Among the ashes blows | J |
| Or through the room goes stealing round | I |
| On cautious creeping toes | J |
| Deep mantled in the drowsy sound | I |
| Of night that sleets and snows | J |
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| And oft like some thin faery thing | K |
| The stormy hush amid | L |
| I hear his captive trebles sing | K |
| Beneath the kettle's lid | L |
| Or now a harp of elfland string | K |
| In some dark cranny hid | L |
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| Again I hear him implike whine | M |
| Cramped in the gusty flue | N |
| Or knotted in the resinous pine | M |
| Raise goblin cry and hue | N |
| While through the smoke his eyeballs shine | M |
| A sooty red and blue | N |
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| At last I hear him nearing dawn | O |
| Take up his roaring broom | P |
| And sweep wild leaves from wood and lawn | O |
| And from the heavens the gloom | P |
| To show the gaunt world lying wan | Q |
| And morn's cold rose a bloom | P |
Madison Julius Cawein
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