The Cloud Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACCDCEFGF HIJIKLFL CMNMOPQPRP SITITUIUVW XWIWCYZYIA2B2C2MD2ID 2E2D2 F2G2H2G2I2MB2MJ2HK2L 2M2H FE2N2E2GK2AK2M2GO2P2seas and the streams | A |
I bear light shade for the leaves when laid | B |
In their noonday dreams | A |
From my wings are shaken the dews that waken | C |
The sweet buds every one | C |
When rocked to rest on their mother's breast | D |
As she dances about the sun | C |
I wield the flail of the lashing hail | E |
And whiten the green plains under | F |
And then again I dissolve it in rain | G |
And laugh as I pass in thunder | F |
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I sift the snow on the mountains below | H |
And their great pines groan aghast | I |
And all the night 'tis my pillow white | J |
While I sleep in the arms of the blast | I |
Sublime on the towers of my skiey bowers | K |
Lightning my pilot sits | L |
In a cavern under is fettered the thunder | F |
It struggles and howls at fits | L |
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Over earth and ocean with gentle motion | C |
This pilot is guiding me | M |
Lured by the love of the genii that move | N |
In the depths of the purple sea | M |
Over the rills and the crags and the hills | O |
Over the lakes and the plains | P |
Wherever he dream under mountain or stream | Q |
The Spirit he loves remains | P |
And I all the while bask in Heaven's blue smile | R |
Whilst he is dissolving in rains | P |
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The sanguine Sunrise with his meteor eyes | S |
And his burning plumes outspread | I |
Leaps on the back of my sailing rack | T |
When the morning star shines dead | I |
As on the jag of a mountain crag | T |
Which an earthquake rocks and swings | U |
An eagle alit one moment may sit | I |
In the light of its golden wings | U |
And when Sunset may breathe from the lit sea beneath | V |
Its ardors of rest and of love | W |
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And the crimson pall of eve may fall | X |
From the depth of Heaven above | W |
With wings folded I rest on mine aery nest | I |
As still as a brooding dove | W |
That orbed maiden with white fire laden | C |
Whom mortals call the Moon | Y |
Glides glimmering o'er my fleece like floor | Z |
By the midnight breezes strewn | Y |
And wherever the beat of her unseen feet | I |
Which only the angels hear | A2 |
May have broken the woof of my tent's thin roof | B2 |
The stars peep behind her and peer | C2 |
And I laugh to see them whirl and flee | M |
Like a swarm of golden bees | D2 |
When I widen the rent in my wind built tent | I |
Till the calm rivers lakes and seas | D2 |
Like strips of the sky fallen through me on high | E2 |
Are each paved with the moon and these | D2 |
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I bind the Sun's throne with a burning zone | F2 |
And the Moon's with a girdle of pearl | G2 |
The volcanoes are dim and the stars reel and swim | H2 |
When the whirlwinds my banner unfurl | G2 |
From cape to cape with a bridge like shape | I2 |
Over a torrent sea | M |
Sunbeam proof I hang like a roof | B2 |
The mountains its columns be | M |
The triumphal arch through which I march | J2 |
With hurricane fire and snow | H |
When the Powers of the air are chained to my chair | K2 |
Is the million colored bow | L2 |
The sphere fire above its soft colors wove | M2 |
While the moist Earth was laughing below | H |
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I am the daughter of Earth and Water | F |
And the nursling of the Sky | E2 |
I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores | N2 |
I change but I cannot die | E2 |
For after the rain when with never a stain | G |
The pavilion of Heaven is bare | K2 |
And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams | A |
Build up the blue dome of air | K2 |
I silently laugh at my own cenotaph | M2 |
And out of the caverns of rain | G |
Like a child from the womb like a ghost from the tomb | O2 |
I arise and unbuild it again | P2 |
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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