Thunder At Night Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHIH CJKJ LALA| Restless and hot two children lay | A |
| Plagued with uneasy dreams | B |
| Each wandered lonely through false day | A |
| A twilight torn with screams | B |
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| True to the bed time story Ben | C |
| Pursued his wounded bear | D |
| Ann dreamed of chattering monkey men | C |
| Of snakes twined in her hair | D |
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| Now high aloft above the town | E |
| The thick clouds gather and break | F |
| A flash a roar and rain drives down | E |
| Aghast the young things wake | F |
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| Trembling for what their terror was | G |
| Surprised by instant doom | H |
| With lightning in the looking glass | I |
| Thunder that rocks the room | H |
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| The monkeys' paws patter again | C |
| Snakes hiss and flash their eyes | J |
| The bear roars out in hideous pain | K |
| Ann prays her brother cries | J |
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| They cannot guess could not be told | L |
| How soon comes careless day | A |
| With birds and dandelion gold | L |
| Wet grass cool scents of May | A |
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