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 ZZ

IA
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O wild West Wind thou breath of Autumn's beingB
Thou from whose unseen presence the leaves deadC
Are driven like ghosts from an enchanter fleeingB
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Yellow and black and pale and hectic redC
Pestilence stricken multitudes thouD
Who chariotest to their dark wintry bedC
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The wing d seeds where they lie cold and lowE
Each like a corpse within its grave untilF
Thine azure sister of the Spring shall blowE
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Her clarion o'er the dreaming earth and fillF
Driving sweet buds like flocks to feed in airG
With living hues and odours plain and hillF
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Wild Spirit which art moving everywhereG
Destroyer and Preserver hear O hearH
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IIA
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Thou on whose stream 'mid the steep sky's commotionI
Loose clouds like Earth's decaying leaves are shedC
Shook from the tangled boughs of Heaven and OceanI
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Angels of rain and lightning there are spreadC
On the blue surface of thine airy surgeJ
Like the bright hair uplifted from the headC
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Of some fierce Maenad even from the dim vergeJ
Of the horizon to the zenith's heightK
The locks of the approaching storm Thou dirgeJ
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Of the dying year to which this closing nightK
Will be the dome of a vast sepulchreH
Vaulted with all thy congregated mightK
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Of vapours from whose solid atmosphereH
Black rain and fire and hail will burst O hearH
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IIIA
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Thou who didst waken from his summer dreamsL
The blue Mediterranean where he layM
Lulled by the coil of his crystalline streamsL
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Beside a pumice isle in Baiae's bayM
And saw in sleep old palaces and towersN
Quivering within the wave's intenser dayM
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All overgrown with azure moss and flowersN
So sweet the sense faints picturing them ThouD
For whose path the Atlantic's level powersN
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Cleave themselves into chasms while far belowE
The sea blooms and the oozy woods which wearH
The sapless foliage of the ocean knowE
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Thy voice and suddenly grow grey with fearH
And tremble and despoil themselves O hearH
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IV-
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If I were a dead leaf thou mightest bearH
If I were a swift cloud to fly with theeO
A wave to pant beneath thy power and shareH
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The impulse of thy strength only less freeO
Than thou O Uncontrollable If evenP
I were as in my boyhood and could beO
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The comrade of thy wanderings over HeavenI
As then when to outstrip thy skiey speedQ
Scarce seemed a vision I would ne'er have strivenI
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As thus with thee in prayer in my sore needQ
Oh lift me as a wave a leaf a cloudR
I fall upon the thorns of life I bleedQ
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A heavy weight of hours has chained and bowedR
One too like thee tameless and swift and proudR
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VO
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Make me thy lyre even as the forest isS
What if my leaves are falling like its ownT
The tumult of thy mighty harmoniesU
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Will take from both a deep autumnal toneT
Sweet though in sadness Be thou Spirit fierceV
My spirit Be thou me impetuous oneI
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Drive my dead thoughts over the universeW
Like withered leaves to quicken a new birthX
And by the incantation of this verseW
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Scatter as from an unextinguished hearthY
Ashes and sparks my words among mankindZ
Be through my lips to unawakened EarthX
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The trumpet of a prophecy O WindZ
If Winter comes can Spring be far behindZ

Percy Bysshe Shelley



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