Ode To The West Wind Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCB CDC EFE FGF GH A ICI CJC JKJ KHK HH A LML MNM NDN EHE HH HOH OPO IQI QRQ RR O STU TVI WXW YZX ZZI | A |
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O wild West Wind thou breath of Autumn's being | B |
Thou from whose unseen presence the leaves dead | C |
Are driven like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing | B |
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Yellow and black and pale and hectic red | C |
Pestilence stricken multitudes thou | D |
Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed | C |
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The wing d seeds where they lie cold and low | E |
Each like a corpse within its grave until | F |
Thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow | E |
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Her clarion o'er the dreaming earth and fill | F |
Driving sweet buds like flocks to feed in air | G |
With living hues and odours plain and hill | F |
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Wild Spirit which art moving everywhere | G |
Destroyer and Preserver hear O hear | H |
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II | A |
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Thou on whose stream 'mid the steep sky's commotion | I |
Loose clouds like Earth's decaying leaves are shed | C |
Shook from the tangled boughs of Heaven and Ocean | I |
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Angels of rain and lightning there are spread | C |
On the blue surface of thine airy surge | J |
Like the bright hair uplifted from the head | C |
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Of some fierce Maenad even from the dim verge | J |
Of the horizon to the zenith's height | K |
The locks of the approaching storm Thou dirge | J |
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Of the dying year to which this closing night | K |
Will be the dome of a vast sepulchre | H |
Vaulted with all thy congregated might | K |
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Of vapours from whose solid atmosphere | H |
Black rain and fire and hail will burst O hear | H |
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III | A |
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Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams | L |
The blue Mediterranean where he lay | M |
Lulled by the coil of his crystalline streams | L |
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Beside a pumice isle in Baiae's bay | M |
And saw in sleep old palaces and towers | N |
Quivering within the wave's intenser day | M |
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All overgrown with azure moss and flowers | N |
So sweet the sense faints picturing them Thou | D |
For whose path the Atlantic's level powers | N |
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Cleave themselves into chasms while far below | E |
The sea blooms and the oozy woods which wear | H |
The sapless foliage of the ocean know | E |
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Thy voice and suddenly grow grey with fear | H |
And tremble and despoil themselves O hear | H |
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IV | - |
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If I were a dead leaf thou mightest bear | H |
If I were a swift cloud to fly with thee | O |
A wave to pant beneath thy power and share | H |
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The impulse of thy strength only less free | O |
Than thou O Uncontrollable If even | P |
I were as in my boyhood and could be | O |
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The comrade of thy wanderings over Heaven | I |
As then when to outstrip thy skiey speed | Q |
Scarce seemed a vision I would ne'er have striven | I |
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As thus with thee in prayer in my sore need | Q |
Oh lift me as a wave a leaf a cloud | R |
I fall upon the thorns of life I bleed | Q |
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A heavy weight of hours has chained and bowed | R |
One too like thee tameless and swift and proud | R |
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V | O |
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Make me thy lyre even as the forest is | S |
What if my leaves are falling like its own | T |
The tumult of thy mighty harmonies | U |
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Will take from both a deep autumnal tone | T |
Sweet though in sadness Be thou Spirit fierce | V |
My spirit Be thou me impetuous one | I |
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Drive my dead thoughts over the universe | W |
Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth | X |
And by the incantation of this verse | W |
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Scatter as from an unextinguished hearth | Y |
Ashes and sparks my words among mankind | Z |
Be through my lips to unawakened Earth | X |
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The trumpet of a prophecy O Wind | Z |
If Winter comes can Spring be far behind | Z |
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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