The Wind's Prophecy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAACDC EFFEEGHG IJJIIIDI CKKCCLML INNIIICI L| I travel on by barren farms | A |
| And gulls glint out like silver flecks | B |
| Against a cloud that speaks of wrecks | B |
| And bellies down with black alarms | A |
| I say Thus from my lady's arms | A |
| I go those arms I love the best | C |
| The wind replies from dip and rise | D |
| Nay toward her arms thou journeyest | C |
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| A distant verge morosely gray | E |
| Appears while clots of flying foam | F |
| Break from its muddy monochrome | F |
| And a light blinks up far away | E |
| I sigh My eyes now as all day | E |
| Behold her ebon loops of hair | G |
| Like bursting bonds the wind responds | H |
| Nay wait for tresses flashing fair | G |
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| From tides the lofty coastlands screen | I |
| Come smitings like the slam of doors | J |
| Or hammerings on hollow floors | J |
| As the swell cleaves through caves unseen | I |
| Say I Though broad this wild terrene | I |
| Her city home is matched of none | I |
| From the hoarse skies the wind replies | D |
| Thou shouldst have said her sea bord one | I |
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| The all prevailing clouds exclude | C |
| The one quick timorous transient star | K |
| The waves outside where breakers are | K |
| Huzza like a mad multitude | C |
| Where the sun ups it mist imbued | C |
| I cry there reigns the star for me | L |
| The wind outshrieks from points and peaks | M |
| Here westward where it downs mean ye | L |
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| Yonder the headland vulturine | I |
| Snores like old Skrymer in his sleep | N |
| And every chasm and every steep | N |
| Blackens as wakes each pharos shine | I |
| I roam but one is safely mine | I |
| I say God grant she stay my own | I |
| Low laughs the wind as if it grinned | C |
| Thy Love is one thou'st not yet known | I |
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| Rewritten from an old copy | L |
Thomas Hardy
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