The Dance Of The Winds Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD BBEEFFGG HHIIBB FFJJKKLL MMGGNNOO PPQQRRSSTT UUVVWWBBII XXYYNNYY ZA2YYYYYYNN NNB2B2QQ C2C2KKD2D2NN| The Wind god Eolus sat one morn | A |
| In his cavern of tempests quite forlorn | A |
| He'd been ill of a fever a month and a day | B |
| And the sun had been having things all his own way | B |
| Pouring o'er earth such a torrent of heat | C |
| That the meadows were dry as the trampled street | C |
| And people were panting and ready to die | D |
| Of the fire that blazed from the pitiless sky | D |
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| But the King felt better that hot June day | B |
| So he said to himself I will get up a play | B |
| Among the children by way of a change | E |
| No doubt they are feeling like me very strange | E |
| At this dreary confinement a month and more | F |
| And never once stirring at all out of door | F |
| It is terribly wearisome keeping so still | G |
| They all shall go out for a dance on the hill | G |
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| Then aloud he spake and the dreary hall | H |
| Re echoed hoarsely his hollow call | H |
| Ho Boreas Auster Eurus ho | I |
| And you too dainty winged Zephyrus go | I |
| And have a dance on the hills to day | B |
| And I'll sit here and enjoy your play | B |
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| Then Boreas started with such a roar | F |
| That the King his father was troubled sore | F |
| And peevishly muttered within himself | J |
| He'll burst his throat the unmannerly elf | J |
| But Auster angry at seeing his brother | K |
| Astart of him broke away with another | K |
| As fearful a yell from the opposite side | L |
| Of the wind cave gloomy and long and wide | L |
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| One from the South and one from the North | M |
| The rough tempered brothers went shrieking forth | M |
| And faster and faster and faster still | G |
| They swept o'er valley and forest and hill | G |
| The clouds affrighted before them flew | N |
| From white swift changing to black or blue | N |
| But failing to'scape the assailants' ire | O |
| Fell afoul of each other in conflict dire | O |
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| Now hot now cold what a strife was there | P |
| Till the crashing hailstones smote the air | P |
| And men and women in country and town | Q |
| Were hastily closing their windows down | Q |
| And shutting doors with a crash and a bang | R |
| While the raindrops beat and the hailstones rang | R |
| And the lightnings glared from the fiery eyes | S |
| Of the furious combatants up in the skies | S |
| And burst in thunder claps far and near | T |
| Making the timorous shake with fear | T |
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| Then Eolus with affright grew cold | U |
| For his blood you'll remember is thin and old | U |
| And his turbulent sons such an uproar made | V |
| That watching the conflict he grew afraid | V |
| Lest in the rage of their desperate fight | W |
| The pair should finish each other outright | W |
| So he shouted to Eurus Away away | B |
| Come up from the East by the shortest way | B |
| And try and part them and you too go | I |
| Zephyrus why are you loitering so | I |
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| Then away sped Eurus shrieking so loud | X |
| That he startled a lazy half slumbering cloud | X |
| That fled before him white in the face | Y |
| And dashed away at a furious pace | Y |
| But he drove it fiercely betwixt the two | N |
| Who parted and scarce knowing what to do | N |
| Descended and each from an opposite place | Y |
| Began to fling dirt in the other one's face | Y |
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| Then round and round and round again | Z |
| They raced and chased over valley and plain | A2 |
| Catching up in their mischievous whirls | Y |
| The hats of boys and the bonnets of girls | Y |
| Tossing up feathers and leaves and sticks | Y |
| Knocking down chimneys and scattering bricks | Y |
| Levelling fences and pulling up trees | Y |
| Till Eolus oftentimes hard to please | Y |
| Clapped his hands as his wine he quaffed | N |
| And laughed as he never before had laughed | N |
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| Cried Eurus Ho ho so this furious fight | N |
| Ends up in a romp and a frolic all right | N |
| I am in for a share Then away went he | B2 |
| And joined with a will in the boisterous glee | B2 |
| Till out of breath ere the sun went down | Q |
| They all fell asleep in the forest brown | Q |
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| A full hour afterwards ambling along | C2 |
| Came dainty Zephyrus humming a song | C2 |
| And pausing the truant to kiss each flower | K |
| That blushed in garden or field or bower | K |
| But no one was left to be merry with him | D2 |
| So he danced with the leaves till the light grew dim | D2 |
| And as Twilight was going to sleep in the west | N |
| He too fell asleep on a rose's breast | N |
Pamela S. Vining, (j. C. Yule)
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