The Wind Is Without There And Howls In The Trees Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFGFHIHI JKJKLMLN OFOFPQPQ| THE wind is without there and howls in the trees | A |
| And the rain flurries drum on the glass | B |
| Alone by the fireside with elbows on knees | A |
| I can number the hours as they pass | B |
| Yet now when to cheer me the crickets begin | C |
| And my pipe is just happily lit | D |
| Believe me my friend tho' the evening draws in | C |
| That not all uncontested I sit | D |
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| Alone did I say O no nowise alone | E |
| With the Past sitting warm on my knee | F |
| To gossip of days that are over and gone | G |
| But still charming to her and to me | F |
| With much to be glad of and much to deplore | H |
| Yet as these days with those we compare | I |
| Believe me my friend tho' the sorrows seem more | H |
| They are somehow more easy to bear | I |
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| And thou faded Future uncertain and frail | J |
| As I cherish thy light in each draught | K |
| His lamp is not more to the miner their sail | J |
| Is not more to the crew on the raft | K |
| For Hope can make feeble ones earnest and brave | L |
| And as forth thro' the years I look on | M |
| Believe me my friend between this and the grave | L |
| I see wonderful things to be done | N |
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| To do or to try and believe me my friend | O |
| If the call should come early for me | F |
| I can leave these foundations uprooted and tend | O |
| For some new city over the sea | F |
| To do or to try and if failure be mine | P |
| And if Fortune go cross to my plan | Q |
| Believe me my friend tho' I mourn the design | P |
| I shall never lament for the man | Q |
Robert Louis Stevenson
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