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 eerieA
And I love them allB
The blithe the mad and the drearyA
Spring Winter and FallB
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When it tells to the waiting crocusC
Its beak to showD
And hangs on the wayside locustE
Bloom bunches of snowD
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When it comes like a balmy blessingF
From the musky woodG
The half grown roses caressingF
Till their cheeks show bloodH
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When it roars in the Autumn seasonI
And whines with rainJ
Or sleet like a mind without reasonI
Or a soul in painJ
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When the wood ways once so spicyA
With bud and bloomK
Are desolate sear and icyA
As the icy tombK
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When the wild owl crouched and frowsyA
In the rotten treeA
Wails dolorous cold and drowsyA
His shuddering melodyA
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Then I love to sit in DecemberL
Where the big hearth singsA
And dreaming forget and rememberL
A host of thingsA
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And the wind I hear how it stranglesA
And gasps and sighsA
On the roof's sharp shivering anglesA
That front the skiesA
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How it groans and romps and tumblesA
In attics o'erheadA
In the great throated chimney rumblesA
Then all at once falls deadA
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Till it comes like footsteps slippingF
Of a child on the stairM
Or a quaint old gentleman trippingF
With heavily powdered hairM
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And my soul grows anxious heartedA
For those once dearN
The long lost loves departedA
In the wind draw nearN
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And I seem to see their facesA
Not one estrangedA
In their old accustomed placesA
'Round the wide hearth rangedA
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And the wind that waits and poisesA
Where the shadows swayO
Makes their visionary voicesA
Seem calling me far awayO
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And I wake in tears to listenI
Again to the sobbing windA
Far out on the lands that glistenI
Like the voice of one who sinnedA

Madison Julius Cawein



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