To A Cloud Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJ KKLMBBNNAAGG OOPPQQJJBeautiful cloud with folds so soft and fair | A |
Swimming in the pure quiet air | A |
Thy fleeces bathed in sunlight while below | B |
Thy shadow o'er the vale moves slow | B |
Where midst their labour pause the reaper train | C |
As cool it comes along the grain | C |
Beautiful cloud I would I were with thee | D |
In thy calm way o'er land and sea | D |
To rest on thy unrolling skirts and look | E |
On Earth as on an open book | E |
On streams that tie her realms with silver bands | F |
And the long ways that seem her lands | F |
And hear her humming cities and the sound | G |
Of the great ocean breaking round | G |
Ay I would sail upon thy air borne car | H |
To blooming regions distant far | H |
To where the sun of Andalusia shines | I |
On his own olive groves and vines | I |
Or the soft lights of Italy's bright sky | J |
In smiles upon her ruins lie | J |
But I would woo the winds to let us rest | K |
O'er Greece long fettered and oppressed | K |
Whose sons at length have heard the call that comes | L |
From the old battle fields and tombs | M |
And risen and drawn the sword and on the foe | B |
Have dealt the swift and desperate blow | B |
And the Othman power is cloven and the stroke | N |
Has touched its chains and they are broke | N |
Ay we would linger till the sunset there | A |
Should come to purple all the air | A |
And thou reflect upon the sacred ground | G |
The ruddy radiance streaming round | G |
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Bright meteor for the summer noontide made | O |
Thy peerless beauty yet shall fade | O |
The sun that fills with light each glistening fold | P |
Shall set and leave thee dark and cold | P |
The blast shall rend thy skirts or thou mayst frown | Q |
In the dark heaven when storms come down | Q |
And weep in rain till man's inquiring eye | J |
Miss thee for ever from the sky | J |
William Cullen Bryant
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