Sorley's Weather Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EDED FBGB HHHH| When outside the icy rain | A |
| Comes leaping helter skelter | B |
| Shall I tie my restive brain | A |
| Snugly under shelter | B |
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| Shall I make a gentle song | C |
| Here in my firelit study | D |
| When outside the winds blow strong | C |
| And the lanes are muddy | D |
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| With old wine and drowsy meats | E |
| Am I to fill my belly | D |
| Shall I glutton here with Keats | E |
| Shall I drink with Shelley | D |
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| Tobacco's pleasant firelight's good | F |
| Poetry makes both better | B |
| Clay is wet and so is mud | G |
| Winter rains are wetter | B |
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| Yet rest there Shelley on the sill | H |
| For though the winds come frorely | H |
| I'm away to the rain blown hill | H |
| And the ghost of Sorley | H |
Robert Von Ranke Graves
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