A Song Of Winds Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFEGHIHJKLKLJGJ LCLCLLCLLMNMLOPOLJGJ LQPQJLLLCRJRRLLLJOCO| WOE to the weak when the sky is shrouded | A |
| And the wind of the salt way sobs as it dies | B |
| Woe to the weak for a great dejection | C |
| Droops their spirits and drowns their eyes | B |
| Woe to the weak who tire of fetters | D |
| Of grim life fetters that gall and bind | E |
| For the Sea tells stories of death made lovely | F |
| And a siren sings in the nor' east wind | E |
| It wanders the coast like a tombless spectre | G |
| And drips dank dew on the drooping leaf | H |
| And the soul grows pensive with dim suggestions | I |
| Of grey old troubles and ancient grief | H |
| 'Tis grave and low and with woeful plaining | J |
| Sighs death notes under a sky of grey | K |
| And who hath an ear may hear the voices | L |
| Of pale men dead on its streaked sea way | K |
| In fading twilights o'er sullen seascapes | L |
| A lost wan wind 'neath a dead grey sky | J |
| It swoons to land like a weary swimmer | G |
| Sobs and falters and turns to die | J |
| Seeking a tomb in dark coast caverns | L |
| Where wet rust reddens the fretted stone | C |
| The wandering sea thing sinks to silence | L |
| Sinks and dies with a last low moan | C |
| A last low moan and deadly stillness | L |
| Then the sudden crash of a league long sea | L |
| And fresh from his den in the white ice region | C |
| The Wolf of the South is speeding free | L |
| Cleaving the air with his chill grey shoulders | L |
| Trampling the sea to foam beneath | M |
| The Wolf of the South goes howling nor'ard | N |
| A mastless hull in his long white teeth | M |
| Black swans on high a far faint phalanx | L |
| Wing their way to a northern clime | O |
| Sending feathers of sad sound downward | P |
| Mournful notes of an evil time | O |
| An evil time for the black Night chases | L |
| And darkness swallows the trailing flock | J |
| An evil season of wild white weather | G |
| And foam and tumult on reef and rock | J |
| Of yellow floods on the Northern rivers | L |
| And fierce waves swaying from crest to trough | Q |
| Of creaking schooners wearing seaward | P |
| And signals crying Stand off Stand off | Q |
| Of frothy flakes on the wild waste flying | J |
| And anxious faces and fateful news | L |
| Of close reefed topsails and battened hatches | L |
| And straining engines and racing screws | L |
| Of pumice stone and brown weeds riven | C |
| Cast up and flung on the hissing sand | R |
| Of squadroned waves and their mighty charging | J |
| And the stern repulse of the frowning land | R |
| Of whipped white faces faring stormward | R |
| With smothered words and wrecked replies | L |
| Of trees blown down on the windy ridges | L |
| And stormy shoutings and tempest cries | L |
| Of eyes that dance to the wild wind's music | J |
| Of strange sweet thrills through the calm sick form | O |
| Of Storm throned king on the mad white ocean | C |
| Of Storm the Monarch all hail to Storm | O |
Roderic Quinn
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