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A Shower In War-time Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Rain rain sweet warm rain	A
On the wood and on the plain	A
Rain rain warm and sweet	B
Summer wood lush leafy and loud	C
With note of a throat that ripples and rings	D
Sad sole sweet from her central seat	B
Bubbling and trilling	E
Filling filling filling	E
The shady space of the green dim place	F
With an odour of melody	G
Till all the noon is thrilling	E
And the great wood hangs in the balmy day	H
Like a cloud with an angel in the cloud	C
And singing because she sings	D
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In the sheltering wood	I
At that hour I stood	I
I saw that in that hour	J
Great round drops clear round drops	K
Grew on every leaf and flower	J
And its hue so fairly took	L
And faintly that each tinted elf	M
Trembled with a rarer self	M
Even as if its beauty shook	L
With passion to a tenderer look	L
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Rain rain sweet warm rain	A
On the wood and on the plain	A
Rain rain warm and sweet	B
Summer wood lush leafy and loud	C
With note of a throat that ripples and rings	D
Sad sole sweet from her central seat	B
Bubbling and trilling	E
Filling filling filling	E
The shady space of the green dim place	F
With an odour of melody	G
Till all the noon is thrilling	E
And the great wood hangs in the balmy day	H
Like a cloud with an angel in the cloud	C
And singing because she sings	D
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Then out of the sweet warm weather	J
There came a little wind sighing sighing	E
Came to the wood sighing and sighing went in	N
Sighed thro' the green grass and o'er the leaves brown	O
Sighed to the dingle and sighing lay down	O
While all the flowers whispered together	J
Then came swift winds after her who was flying	E
Swift bright winds with a jocund din	N
Sought her in vain her boscage was so good	I
And spread like baffled revellers thro' the wood	I
Then from bough and leaf and bell	P
The great round drops the clear round drops	K
In fitful cadence drooped and fell	P
Drooped and fell as if some wanton air	Q
Were more apparent here and there	Q
Sphered on a favourite flower in dewy kiss	R
Grew heavy with delight and dropped with bliss	R
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Rain rain sweet warm rain	A
On the wood and on the plain	A
Rain rain still and sweet	B
For the winds have hushed again	S
And the nightingale is still	T
Sleeping in her central seat	B
Rain rain summer rain	A
Silent as the summer heat	B
Doth it fall or doth it rise	U
Is it incense from the hill	T
Or bounty from the skies	U
Or is the face of earth that lies	U
Languid looking up on high	V
To the face of Heaven so nigh	V
That their balmy breathings meet	B
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Rain rain summer rain	A
On the wood and on the plain	A
Rain rain rain until	T
The tall wet trees no more athirst	B
As each chalice green doth fill	T
See the pigmy nations nurst	B
Round their distant feet and throw	W
The nectar to the herbs below	W
The droughty herbs without a sound	B
Drink it ere it reach the ground	B
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Rain rain sweet warm rain	A
On the wood and on the plain	A
And round me like a dropping well	P
The great round drops they fell and fell	P
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I say not War is good or ill	T
Perchance they may slay if they will	T
Who killing love and loving kill	T
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I do not join yon captive's din	N
Some man among us without sin	N
Perhaps may rightly lock him in	N
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I do not grant the Tyrant's plea	G
The slaves potential to be free	G
Already are the Powers that be	G
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Whether our bloodsheds flow or cease	X
I know that as the years increase	X
The flower of all is human peace	X
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'The Flower ' Vertumnus hath repute	B
O'er Flora yet methinks the fruit	B
But alter ego of the root	B
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And that which serves our fleshly need	B
Subserves the blossom that doth feed	B
The soul which is the life indeed	B
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Nor well he deems who deems the rose	Y
Is for the roseberry nor knows	Y
The roseberry is for the rose	Y
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And Autumn's garnered treasury	G
But prudent Nature's guarantee	G
That Summer evermore shall be	G
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And yearly once a year complete	B
That top and culmen exquisite	B
Whereto the slanting seasons meet	B
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Whether our bloodsheds flow or cease	X
I know that as the years increase	X
The flower of all is human peace	X
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'The flower ' Yet whether shall we sow	Z
A blossom or a seed I know	W
The flower will rot the seed will grow	W
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By this the rain had ceased and I went forth	A2
From that Dodona green of oak and beech	B2
But ere my steps could reach	B2
The hamlet I beheld along the verge	C2
A flight of fleeing cloudlets that did urge	C2
Unequal speed as when a herd is driven	D2
By the recurring pulse of shoutings loud	B
I saw but held the omen of no worth	E2
For by the footway not a darnel stirred	B
And still the noon slept on nor even a bird	B
Moved the dull air but at each silent hand	B
Upon the steaming land	B
The hare lay basking and the budded wheat	B
Hung slumberous heads of sleep	F2
Then I was 'ware that a great northern cloud	B
Moved slowly to the centre of the heaven	D2
His white head was so high	V
That the great blue fell round him like the wide	B
And ermined robe of kings He sat in pride	B
Lonely and cold but methought when he spied	B
From that severe inhospitable height	B
The distant dear delight	B
The meiting world with summer at her side	B
His pale brow mellowed with a mournful light	B
And like a marble god he wept his stony tears	G2
The loyal clouds that sit about his feet	B
All in their courtier kinds	H2
Do weep to see him weep	F2
After the priceless drops the sycophant winds	I2
Leap headlong down and chase and swirl and sweep	F2
Beneath the royal grief that scarce may reach the ground	B
To see their whirling zeal	J2
Unlikely things that in the kennel lie	V
Begin to wheel and wheel	J2
The wild tarantula will spreads far and nigh	V
And spinning straws go spiral to the sky	V
And leaves long dead leap up and dance their ghastly round	B
And so it happened in the street	B
'Neath a broad eave I stood and mused again	S
And all the arrows of the driving rain	A
Were tipped with slanting sleet	B
I mused beneath the straw pent of the bricked	B
And sodded cot with damp moss mouldered o'er	J
The bristled thatch gleamed with a carcanet	B
And from the inner eaves the reeking wet	B
Dripped dropping more	K2
And more as more the sappy roof was sapped	B
And wept a mirkier wash that splashed and clapped	B
The plain stones dribbling to the flooded door	K2
A plopping pool of droppings stood before	K2
Worn by a weeping age in rock of easy grain	A
O'erhead hard by a pointed beam o'erlapped	B
And from its jewelled tip	L2
The slipping slipping drip	L2
Did whip the fillipped pool whose hopping plashes ticked	B
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Let one or thousands loose or bind	B
That land's enslaved whose sovran mind	B
Collides the conscience of mankind	B
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And free whoever holds the rood	B
Where Might in Right and Power in Good	B
Flow each in each like life in blood	B
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The age has broken from his kings	D
Stop him Behold his feet have wings	D
Upon his back the hero springs	D
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Tho' Jack's horse run away with Jack	M2
Who knows while Jack keeps on his back	M2
If Jack rule him or he rule Jack	M2
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Cuckoo takes the mud away	H
True the sun doth shine all day	H
Cuckoo takes the mud away	H
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Who sneers at heirloom rank God knows	Y
Each man that lives each flower that blows	Y
There may be lords and a blue rose	Y
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Even to the sod whereon you prate	H
This land is ours Do you debate	H
How we shall manage our estate	H
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Norman War granted you your lease	X
The very countersign of Peace	X
Shows the first Lessor can release	X
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Therefore altho' you cannot guide	H
Be wise and spare the almighty pride	H
Of that mild monster that you ride	H
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If England's head and heart were one	D2
Where is that good beneath the sun	D2
Her noble hands should leave undone	D2
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Small unit hast thou hardiness	X
To bid mankind to battle Yes	X
The worm will rout them and is less	X
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The world assaults Nor fight nor fly	V
Stand in some steadfast truth and eye	V
The stubborn siege grow old and die	V
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My army is manking My foe	W
The very meanest truth I know	W
Shall I come back a conqueror No	W
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Wouldst light See Phosphor shines confest	V
Turn thy broad back upon the west	V