The Winds Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDDCEECFF G BBCCDDHHIIEJ K LMMLNDMDOPOPCQRRSSBT BTUV G WXXBBWWBBYYZZTTQCYYA 2A2WB2B2WWCCCC2CCC2X C2XC2D2D2| When dark November bade the leaves adieu | A |
| And the gale sung amid the sea boy's shrouds | B |
| Methought I saw four winged forms that flew | A |
| With garments streaming light amid the clouds | B |
| From adverse regions of the sky | C |
| In dim succession they went by | C |
| The first as o'er the billowy deep he passed | D |
| Blew from its brazen trump a far resounding blast | D |
| Upon a beaked promontory high | C |
| With streaming heart and cloudy brow severe | E |
| Marked ye the father of the frowning year | E |
| Dark vapours rolled o'er the tempestuous sky | C |
| When creeping WINTER from his cave came forth | F |
| Stern courier of the storm he cried what from the north | F |
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| NORTH WIND | G |
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| From the vast and desert deeps | B |
| Where the lonely Kraken sleeps | B |
| Where fixed the icy mountains high | C |
| Glimmer to the twilight sky | C |
| Where six lingering months to last | D |
| The night has closed the day is past | D |
| Father lo I come I come | H |
| I have heard the wizard's drum | H |
| And the withered Lapland hag | I |
| Seal with muttered spell her bag | I |
| O'er mountains white and forests sere | E |
| I flew and with a wink am here | J |
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| WINTER | K |
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| Spirit of unwearied wing | L |
| From the Baltic's frozen main | M |
| From the Russ's bleak domain | M |
| Say what tidings dost thou bring | L |
| Shouts and the noise of battle and again | N |
| The winged wind blew loud a deadly blast | D |
| Shouts and the noise of battle the long main | M |
| Seemed with hoarse voice to answer as he passed | D |
| The moody South went by and silence kept | O |
| The cloudy rack oft hid his mournful mien | P |
| And frequent fell the showers as if he wept | O |
| The eternal havoc of this mortal scene | P |
| He had heard the yell and cry | C |
| And howling dance of Anarchy | Q |
| Where the Rhone with rushing flood | R |
| Murmured to the main through blood | R |
| He seemed to wish he could for ever throw | S |
| His misty mantle o'er a world of woe | S |
| But rousing him from his desponding trance | B |
| Cold Eurus blew his sharp and shrilling horn | T |
| In his right hand he bore an icy lance | B |
| That far off glittered in the frost of morn | T |
| The old man knew the clarion from afar | U |
| What from the East he cried | V |
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| EAST WIND | G |
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| Shouts and the noise of war | W |
| Far o'er the land hath been my flight | X |
| O'er many a forest dark as night | X |
| O'er champaigns where the Tartar speeds | B |
| O'er Wolga's wild and giant reeds | B |
| O'er the Carpathian summits hoar | W |
| Beneath whose snows and shadows frore | W |
| Poland's level length unfolds | B |
| Her trackless woods and wildering wolds | B |
| Like a spirit seeking rest | Y |
| I have passed from east to west | Y |
| While sounds of discord and lament | Z |
| Rose from the earth where'er I went | Z |
| I care not hurrying as in scorn | T |
| I shook my lance and blew my horn | T |
| The day shows clear and merrily | Q |
| Along the Atlantic now I fly | C |
| Who comes in soft and spicy vest | Y |
| From the mild regions of the West | Y |
| An azure veil bends waving o'er his head | A2 |
| And showers of violets from his hands are shed | A2 |
| 'Tis Zephyr with a look as young and fair | W |
| As when his lucid wings conveyed | B2 |
| That beautiful and gentle maid | B2 |
| Psyche transported through the air | W |
| The blissful couch of Love's own god to share | W |
| Winter avaunt thy haggard eye | C |
| Will scare him as he wanders by | C |
| Him and the timid butterfly | C |
| He brings again the morn of May | C2 |
| The lark amid the clear blue sky | C |
| Carols but is not seen so high | C |
| And all the winter's winds fly far away | C2 |
| I cried O Father of the world whose might | X |
| The storm the darkness and the winds obey | C2 |
| Oh when will thus the long tempestuous night | X |
| Of warfare and of woe be rolled away | C2 |
| Oh when will cease the uproar and the din | D2 |
| And Peace breathe soft Summer is coming in | D2 |
William Lisle Bowles
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