Before A Midnight Breaks In Storm Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDD EFEGHHII JKJKLLMM NDNDOPQQ RSRSTTUU| Before a midnight breaks in storm | A |
| Or herded sea in wrath | B |
| Ye know what wavering gusts inform | A |
| The greater tempest's path | B |
| Till the loosed wind | C |
| Drive all from mind | C |
| Except Distress which so will prophets cry | D |
| O'ercame them houseless from the unhinting sky | D |
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| Ere rivers league against the land | E |
| In piratry of flood | F |
| Ye know what waters steal and stand | E |
| Where seldom water stood | G |
| Yet who will note | H |
| Till fields afloat | H |
| And washen carcass and the returning well | I |
| Trumpet what these poor heralds strove to tell | I |
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| Ye know who use the Crystal Ball | J |
| To peer by stealth on Doom | K |
| The Shade that shaping first of all | J |
| Prepares an empty room | K |
| Then doth It pass | L |
| Like breath from glass | L |
| But on the extorted Vision bowed intent | M |
| No man considers why It came or went | M |
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| Before the years reborn behold | N |
| Themselves with stranger eye | D |
| And the sport making Gods of old | N |
| Like Samson slaying die | D |
| Many shall hear | O |
| The all pregnant sphere | P |
| Bow to the birth and sweat but speech denied | Q |
| Sit dumb or dealt in part fall weak and wide | Q |
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| Yet instant to fore shadowed need | R |
| The eternal balance swings | S |
| That winged men the Fates may breed | R |
| So soon as Fate hath wings | S |
| These shall possess | T |
| Our littleness | T |
| And in the imperial task as worthy lay | U |
| Up our lives' all to piece one giant Day | U |
Rudyard Kipling
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