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 adieuA
And the gale sung amid the sea boy's shroudsB
Methought I saw four winged forms that flewA
With garments streaming light amid the cloudsB
From adverse regions of the skyC
In dim succession they went byC
The first as o'er the billowy deep he passedD
Blew from its brazen trump a far resounding blastD
Upon a beaked promontory highC
With streaming heart and cloudy brow severeE
Marked ye the father of the frowning yearE
Dark vapours rolled o'er the tempestuous skyC
When creeping WINTER from his cave came forthF
Stern courier of the storm he cried what from the northF
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NORTH WINDG
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From the vast and desert deepsB
Where the lonely Kraken sleepsB
Where fixed the icy mountains highC
Glimmer to the twilight skyC
Where six lingering months to lastD
The night has closed the day is pastD
Father lo I come I comeH
I have heard the wizard's drumH
And the withered Lapland hagI
Seal with muttered spell her bagI
O'er mountains white and forests sereE
I flew and with a wink am hereJ
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WINTERK
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Spirit of unwearied wingL
From the Baltic's frozen mainM
From the Russ's bleak domainM
Say what tidings dost thou bringL
Shouts and the noise of battle and againN
The winged wind blew loud a deadly blastD
Shouts and the noise of battle the long mainM
Seemed with hoarse voice to answer as he passedD
The moody South went by and silence keptO
The cloudy rack oft hid his mournful mienP
And frequent fell the showers as if he weptO
The eternal havoc of this mortal sceneP
He had heard the yell and cryC
And howling dance of AnarchyQ
Where the Rhone with rushing floodR
Murmured to the main through bloodR
He seemed to wish he could for ever throwS
His misty mantle o'er a world of woeS
But rousing him from his desponding tranceB
Cold Eurus blew his sharp and shrilling hornT
In his right hand he bore an icy lanceB
That far off glittered in the frost of mornT
The old man knew the clarion from afarU
What from the East he criedV
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EAST WINDG
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Shouts and the noise of warW
Far o'er the land hath been my flightX
O'er many a forest dark as nightX
O'er champaigns where the Tartar speedsB
O'er Wolga's wild and giant reedsB
O'er the Carpathian summits hoarW
Beneath whose snows and shadows froreW
Poland's level length unfoldsB
Her trackless woods and wildering woldsB
Like a spirit seeking restY
I have passed from east to westY
While sounds of discord and lamentZ
Rose from the earth where'er I wentZ
I care not hurrying as in scornT
I shook my lance and blew my hornT
The day shows clear and merrilyQ
Along the Atlantic now I flyC
Who comes in soft and spicy vestY
From the mild regions of the WestY
An azure veil bends waving o'er his headA2
And showers of violets from his hands are shedA2
'Tis Zephyr with a look as young and fairW
As when his lucid wings conveyedB2
That beautiful and gentle maidB2
Psyche transported through the airW
The blissful couch of Love's own god to shareW
Winter avaunt thy haggard eyeC
Will scare him as he wanders byC
Him and the timid butterflyC
He brings again the morn of MayC2
The lark amid the clear blue skyC
Carols but is not seen so highC
And all the winter's winds fly far awayC2
I cried O Father of the world whose mightX
The storm the darkness and the winds obeyC2
Oh when will thus the long tempestuous nightX
Of warfare and of woe be rolled awayC2
Oh when will cease the uproar and the dinD2
And Peace breathe soft Summer is coming inD2

William Lisle Bowles



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