Tidings Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEFGHGHIJIJ KLKLMNMNOPOPQRQN| THE darkness gripped us hot intense | A |
| The sea snored like some sleeping brute | B |
| We stood alert with every sense | A |
| Like some leashed hound nerve thrilled acute | B |
| About us clammy dew made wet | C |
| The thin green leaves and sleeping flowers | D |
| Strained eyes against the night we set | C |
| Strained ears like open doors were ours | D |
| No sight save when across the black | E |
| Broad breast of night fierce lightning tore | F |
| A ragged gash a serpent track | E |
| And thunder answered the sea's snore | F |
| One sighed and one would no more stand | G |
| At easeless rest but drooping walked | H |
| Then though none spoke one raised his hand | G |
| As if to silence tongues that talked | H |
| We heard it On the granite ground | I |
| It sounded nigh and on the beach | J |
| It grew remote upon that sound | I |
| With seeking eyes each questioned each | J |
| Grouped close like men of carven stone | K |
| Chilled stone we stood with rooted feet | L |
| 'He comes What news ' Not hoofs alone | K |
| In that tense moment swiftly beat | L |
| Cried one 'Joy rides at such a pace | M |
| Joy swift of hoof and light as air ' | N |
| Said one eyes sunk and pallid face | M |
| 'So too at times rides dread Despair ' | N |
| We waited vexed by dumb surmise | O |
| Eyes wide lips wide tense faces white | P |
| Ears served till ears gave place to eyes | O |
| Sound likewise yielding unto sight | P |
| He came with headlong speed and dash | Q |
| Fierce lightning lighting land and sea | R |
| And in that red revealing flash | Q |
| He rose and shouted 'Victory ' | N |
Roderic Quinn
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