Poet William Cullen Bryant

William Cullen Bryant

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To A Cloud Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJ KKLMBBNNAAGG OOPPQQJJ

Beautiful cloud with folds so soft and fairA
Swimming in the pure quiet airA
Thy fleeces bathed in sunlight while belowB
Thy shadow o'er the vale moves slowB
Where midst their labour pause the reaper trainC
As cool it comes along the grainC
Beautiful cloud I would I were with theeD
In thy calm way o'er land and seaD
To rest on thy unrolling skirts and lookE
On Earth as on an open bookE
On streams that tie her realms with silver bandsF
And the long ways that seem her landsF
And hear her humming cities and the soundG
Of the great ocean breaking roundG
Ay I would sail upon thy air borne carH
To blooming regions distant farH
To where the sun of Andalusia shinesI
On his own olive groves and vinesI
Or the soft lights of Italy's bright skyJ
In smiles upon her ruins lieJ
But I would woo the winds to let us restK
O'er Greece long fettered and oppressedK
Whose sons at length have heard the call that comesL
From the old battle fields and tombsM
And risen and drawn the sword and on the foeB
Have dealt the swift and desperate blowB
And the Othman power is cloven and the strokeN
Has touched its chains and they are brokeN
Ay we would linger till the sunset thereA
Should come to purple all the airA
And thou reflect upon the sacred groundG
The ruddy radiance streaming roundG
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Bright meteor for the summer noontide madeO
Thy peerless beauty yet shall fadeO
The sun that fills with light each glistening foldP
Shall set and leave thee dark and coldP
The blast shall rend thy skirts or thou mayst frownQ
In the dark heaven when storms come downQ
And weep in rain till man's inquiring eyeJ
Miss thee for ever from the skyJ

William Cullen Bryant



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