The Wind Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGFH IJIJ AKAK AAAA LALA AAAA AAAA FMFM ANAN AAAA AOAO IAIA| The ways of the wind are eerie | A |
| And I love them all | B |
| The blithe the mad and the dreary | A |
| Spring Winter and Fall | B |
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| When it tells to the waiting crocus | C |
| Its beak to show | D |
| And hangs on the wayside locust | E |
| Bloom bunches of snow | D |
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| When it comes like a balmy blessing | F |
| From the musky wood | G |
| The half grown roses caressing | F |
| Till their cheeks show blood | H |
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| When it roars in the Autumn season | I |
| And whines with rain | J |
| Or sleet like a mind without reason | I |
| Or a soul in pain | J |
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| When the wood ways once so spicy | A |
| With bud and bloom | K |
| Are desolate sear and icy | A |
| As the icy tomb | K |
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| When the wild owl crouched and frowsy | A |
| In the rotten tree | A |
| Wails dolorous cold and drowsy | A |
| His shuddering melody | A |
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| Then I love to sit in December | L |
| Where the big hearth sings | A |
| And dreaming forget and remember | L |
| A host of things | A |
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| And the wind I hear how it strangles | A |
| And gasps and sighs | A |
| On the roof's sharp shivering angles | A |
| That front the skies | A |
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| How it groans and romps and tumbles | A |
| In attics o'erhead | A |
| In the great throated chimney rumbles | A |
| Then all at once falls dead | A |
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| Till it comes like footsteps slipping | F |
| Of a child on the stair | M |
| Or a quaint old gentleman tripping | F |
| With heavily powdered hair | M |
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| And my soul grows anxious hearted | A |
| For those once dear | N |
| The long lost loves departed | A |
| In the wind draw near | N |
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| And I seem to see their faces | A |
| Not one estranged | A |
| In their old accustomed places | A |
| 'Round the wide hearth ranged | A |
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| And the wind that waits and poises | A |
| Where the shadows sway | O |
| Makes their visionary voices | A |
| Seem calling me far away | O |
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| And I wake in tears to listen | I |
| Again to the sobbing wind | A |
| Far out on the lands that glisten | I |
| Like the voice of one who sinned | A |
Madison Julius Cawein
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