A Thunder Storm Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCB DDEDE FFGFG HHIHJ KKDKD BLDBD| The day was hot and the day was dumb | A |
| Save for cricket's chirr or the bee's low hum | A |
| Not a bird was seen or a butterfly | B |
| And ever till noon was over the sun | C |
| Glared down with a yellow and terrible eye | B |
| - | |
| Glared down in the woods where the breathless boughs | D |
| Hung heavy and faint in a languid drowse | D |
| And the ferns were curling with thirst and heat | E |
| Glared down on the fields where the sleepy cows | D |
| Stood munching the grasses dry and sweet | E |
| - | |
| Then a single cloud rose up in the west | F |
| With a base of gray and a white white crest | F |
| It rose and it spread a mighty wing | G |
| And swooped at the sun though he did his best | F |
| And struggled and fought like a wounded thing | G |
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| And the woods awoke and the sleepers heard | H |
| Each heavily hanging leaflet stirred | H |
| With a little expectant quiver and thrill | I |
| As the cloud bent over and uttered a word | H |
| One volleying rolling syllable | J |
| - | |
| And once and again came the deep low tone | K |
| Which only to thunder's lips is known | K |
| And the earth held up her fearless face | D |
| And listened as if to a signal blown | K |
| A signal trump in some heavenly place | D |
| - | |
| The trumpet of God obeyed on high | B |
| His signal to open the granary | L |
| And send forth his heavily loaded wains | D |
| Rambling and roaring down the sky | B |
| And scattering the blessed long harvested rains | D |
Susan Coolidge (sarah Chauncey Woolsey)
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