After A Tempest Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBCC BBBBBDBDD EFEFFGFGG HIHIIBIBB CJCJJKJKK LBLBBEBEE| The day had been a day of wind and storm | A |
| The wind was laid the storm was overpast | B |
| And stooping from the zenith bright and warm | A |
| Shone the great sun on the wide earth at last | B |
| I stood upon the upland slope and cast | B |
| My eye upon a broad and beauteous scene | C |
| Where the vast plain lay girt by mountains vast | B |
| And hills o'er hills lifted their heads of green | C |
| With pleasant vales scooped out and villages between | C |
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| The rain drops glistened on the trees around | B |
| Whose shadows on the tall grass were not stirred | B |
| Save when a shower of diamonds to the ground | B |
| Was shaken by the flight of startled bird | B |
| For birds were warbling round and bees were heard | B |
| About the flowers the cheerful rivulet sung | D |
| And gossiped as he hastened ocean ward | B |
| To the gray oak the squirrel chiding clung | D |
| And chirping from the ground the grasshopper upsprung | D |
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| And from beneath the leaves that kept them dry | E |
| Flew many a glittering insect here and there | F |
| And darted up and down the butterfly | E |
| That seemed a living blossom of the air | F |
| The flocks came scattering from the thicket where | F |
| The violent rain had pent them in the way | G |
| Strolled groups of damsels frolicksome and fair | F |
| The farmer swung the scythe or turned the hay | G |
| And 'twixt the heavy swaths his children were at play | G |
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| It was a scene of peace and like a spell | H |
| Did that serene and golden sunlight fall | I |
| Upon the motionless wood that clothed the fell | H |
| And precipice upspringing like a wall | I |
| And glassy river and white waterfall | I |
| And happy living things that trod the bright | B |
| And beauteous scene while far beyond them all | I |
| On many a lovely valley out of sight | B |
| Was poured from the blue heavens the same soft golden light | B |
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| I looked and thought the quiet of the scene | C |
| An emblem of the peace that yet shall be | J |
| When o'er earth's continents and isles between | C |
| The noise of war shall cease from sea to sea | J |
| And married nations dwell in harmony | J |
| When millions crouching in the dust to one | K |
| No more shall beg their lives on bended knee | J |
| Nor the black stake be dressed nor in the sun | K |
| The o'erlaboured captive toil and wish his life were done | K |
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| Too long at clash of arms amid her bowers | L |
| And pools of blood the earth has stood aghast | B |
| The fair earth that should only blush with flowers | L |
| And ruddy fruits but not for aye can last | B |
| The storm and sweet the sunshine when 'tis past | B |
| Lo the clouds roll away they break they fly | E |
| And like the glorious light of summer cast | B |
| O'er the wide landscape from the embracing sky | E |
| On all the peaceful world the smile of heaven shall lie | E |
William Cullen Bryant
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