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Kailyard fiction

2 nine-line stanzas: I. Dead Calm: Noon; II Dead Calm: Midnight;

irregular verse

Poem celebrates the North Wind as the Spirit of Life and Liberty

2 quatrains, rhyming abab

4 quatrains: good things in life = wine, women, friendship; but only thing to count on is friend

6 quatrains abab

The poem celebrates spring, renewal, love: “For the old god Pan hath taken a wife/ And the whole world shares their mirth..."

quatrains abab

5 8-line stanzas, ababcdcd