The Voices Of The Rain Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEFGHGHAIAI JKJKLBLBMNMNBOBNAMAM PQPQKAKNRSRSDBDB| LAST night when under troubled skies | A |
| The storm went marching o'er the plain | B |
| An elfin music seemed to rise | A |
| A singing in the rain | B |
| At first it seemed a prattling child | C |
| That played alone in young delight | D |
| And then it seemed a joy gone wild | C |
| That sang along the night | D |
| The raindrops with their steady beat | E |
| And burden musical and low | F |
| Were like a thousand little feet | E |
| That hurried to and fro | F |
| And where the runnels gushed and streamed | G |
| And soaked the grass roots dry and brown | H |
| A busy band of fairies seemed | G |
| To patter up and down | H |
| The air was full of whisperings | A |
| And all the teeming dark was rife | I |
| With stir and call that told of things | A |
| That woke anew to life | I |
| And then across the darkened waste | J |
| A sudden shouting wind was hurled | K |
| It seemed a messenger in haste | J |
| With tidings for the world | K |
| But till across that streaming scene | L |
| The wind went rushing down the plain | B |
| I did not guess what they might mean | L |
| Those voices of the rain | B |
| They said 'Farewell to drought and dearth | M |
| To Famine hollow eyed and nude ' | N |
| They said 'We are the teeming Earth | M |
| The gift of plenitude ' | N |
| They said those voices of the rain | B |
| 'We are the flesh and blood and breath | O |
| We are the meat the fruit the grain | B |
| That succour all from death ' | N |
| They said 'Wherever we may pass | A |
| The hour of plenty comes to birth | M |
| We spread the banquet of the grass | A |
| Around about the Earth | M |
| 'We call ' they said 'and lo the seed | P |
| Within its mother soil is stirred | Q |
| The seasons round 'tis ours to feed | P |
| The fruit the tree the bird | Q |
| 'By us the petal is unfurled | K |
| The flower in purple splendour blooms | A |
| We fill the markets of the world | K |
| And feed its hungry looms ' | N |
| The moon sent forth one silver ray | R |
| The fairy voices ceased to sing | S |
| Yet far away and far away | R |
| I heard thanks echoing | S |
| For cattle lowed throughout the night | D |
| In deep content across the plain | B |
| And I too thanked with meet delight | D |
| The voices of the rain | B |
Roderic Quinn
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