The Spring Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCBCDD AAEFGFHI JJKHLHBB MGANANCC OPJQJQCC BBLDKRSS| Though you be absent here I needs must say | A |
| The Trees as beauteous are and flowers as gay | A |
| As ever they were wont to be | B |
| Nay the Birds rural musick too | C |
| Is as melodious and free | B |
| As if they sung to pleasure you | C |
| I saw a Rose Bud o'pe this morn I'll swear | D |
| The blushing Morning open'd not more fair | D |
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| How could it be so fair and you away | A |
| How could the Trees be beauteous Flowers so gay | A |
| Could they remember but last year | E |
| How you did Them They you delight | F |
| The sprouting leaves which saw you here | G |
| And call'd their Fellows to the sight | F |
| Would looking round for the same sight in vain | H |
| Creep back into their silent Barks again | I |
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| Where ere you walk'd trees were as reverend made | J |
| As when of old Gods dwelt in every shade | J |
| Is't possible they should not know | K |
| What loss of honor they sustain | H |
| That thus they smile and flourish now | L |
| And still their former pride retain | H |
| Dull Creatures 'tis not without Cause that she | B |
| Who fled the God of wit was made a Tree | B |
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| In ancient times sure they much wiser were | M |
| When they rejoyc'd the Thracian verse to hear | G |
| In vain did Nature bid them stay | A |
| When Orpheus had his song begun | N |
| They call'd their wondring roots away | A |
| And bad them silent to him run | N |
| How would those learned trees have followed you | C |
| You would have drawn Them and their Poet too | C |
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| But who can blame them now for since you're gone | O |
| They're here the only Fair and Shine alone | P |
| You did their Natural Rights invade | J |
| Where ever you did walk or sit | Q |
| The thickest Boughs could make no shade | J |
| Although the Sun had granted it | Q |
| The fairest Flowers could please no more neer you | C |
| Then Painted Flowers set next to them could do | C |
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| When e're then you come hither that shall be | B |
| The time which this to others is to Me | B |
| The little joys which here are now | L |
| The name of Punishments do bear | D |
| When by their sight they let us know | K |
| How we depriv'd of greater are | R |
| 'Tis you the best of Seasons with you bring | S |
| This is for Beasts and that for Men the Spring | S |
Abraham Cowley
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