Thunder In The Garden Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGFG HIHI JKJK LMLM NONO PBPB QPQP RDRD IPSP| When the boughs of the garden hang heavy with rain | A |
| And the blackbird reneweth his song | B |
| And the thunder departing yet rolleth again | C |
| I remember the ending of wrong | B |
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| When the day that was dusk while his death was aloof | D |
| Is ending wide gleaming and strange | E |
| For the clearness of all things beneath the world s roof | D |
| I call back the wild chance and the change | E |
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| For once we twain sat through the hot afternoon | F |
| While the rain held aloof for a while | G |
| Till she the soft clad for the glory of June | F |
| Changed all with the change of her smile | G |
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| For her smile was of longing no longer of glee | H |
| And her fingers entwined with mine own | I |
| With caresses unquiet sought kindness of me | H |
| For the gift that I never had known | I |
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| Then down rushed the rain and the voice of the thunder | J |
| Smote dumb all the sound of the street | K |
| And I to myself was grown nought but a wonder | J |
| As she leaned down my kisses to meet | K |
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| That she craved for my lips that had craved her so often | L |
| And the hand that had trembled to touch | M |
| That the tears filled her eyes I had hoped not to soften | L |
| In this world was a marvel too much | M |
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| It was dusk mid the thunder dusk e en as the night | N |
| When first brake out our love like the storm | O |
| But no night hour was it and back came the light | N |
| While our hands with each other were warm | O |
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| And her smile killed with kisses came back as at first | P |
| As she rose up and led me along | B |
| And out to the garden where nought was athirst | P |
| And the blackbird renewing his song | B |
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| Earth s fragrance went with her as in the wet grass | Q |
| Her feet little hidden were set | P |
| She bent down her head neath the roses to pass | Q |
| And her arm with the lily was wet | P |
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| In the garden we wandered while day waned apace | R |
| And the thunder was dying aloof | D |
| Till the moon o er the minster wall lifted his face | R |
| And grey gleamed out the lead of the roof | D |
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| Then we turned from the blossoms and cold were they grown | I |
| In the trees the wind westering moved | P |
| Till over the threshold back fluttered her gown | S |
| And in the dark house was I loved | P |
William Morris
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