The Wind



The lithe wind races and sings
            Over the grasses and wheat -
        See the emerald floor as it springs
            To the touch of invisible feet!

        Ah, later, the fir and the pine
            Shall stoop to its weightier tread,
        As it tramps the thundering brine
            Till it shudders and whitens in dread!

        Breath of man! a glass of thine own
            Is the wind on the land, on the sea -
        Joy of life at thy touch! - full grown,
            Destruction and death maybe!
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Submitted by naama on July 15, 2020

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 512
Words 82
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4

Theodore Harding Rand

Theodore Harding Rand (8 February 1835 – 29 May 1900) was a Canadian educator and poet. more…

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