The West Wind Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD AEAE FAFA GHGI AAAA JKJK| Beneath the forest's skirts I rest | A |
| Whose branching pines rise dark and high | B |
| And hear the breezes of the West | A |
| Among the threaded foliage sigh | B |
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| Sweet Zephyr why that sound of woe | C |
| Is not thy home among the flowers | D |
| Do not the bright June roses blow | C |
| To meet thy kiss at morning hours | D |
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| And lo thy glorious realm outspread | A |
| Yon stretching valleys green and gay | E |
| And yon free hill tops o'er whose head | A |
| The loose white clouds are borne away | E |
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| And there the full broad river runs | F |
| And many a fount wells fresh and sweet | A |
| To cool thee when the mid day suns | F |
| Have made thee faint beneath their heat | A |
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| Thou wind of joy and youth and love | G |
| Spirit of the new wakened year | H |
| The sun in his blue realm above | G |
| Smooths a bright path when thou art here | I |
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| In lawns the murmuring bee is heard | A |
| The wooing ring dove in the shade | A |
| On thy soft breath the new fledged bird | A |
| Takes wing half happy half afraid | A |
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| Ah thou art like our wayward race | J |
| When not a shade of pain or ill | K |
| Dims the bright smile of Nature's face | J |
| Thou lovest to sigh and murmur still | K |
William Cullen Bryant
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