The Coming Of Winter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCEABAFGHGII DJKJDLELMNMGG OPQPIKRKDSDSAA IIKITUSUDVEVKK A DWIWXYIYIZA2ZB2A A IC2D2C2IID2IE2F2XF2C C A DG2F2G2H2I2F2I2DJ2F2 J2IH2 H2H2DH2F2DA2DF2K2L2K 2IIStanzas from 'Onegin' | A |
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Our Northern Winter's fickle Summer | B |
Than Southern Winter scarce more bland | C |
Is undeniably withdrawing | D |
On fleeting footsteps from the land | C |
Soon will the Autumn dim the heavens | E |
The light of sunbeams rarer grown | A |
Already every day is shorter | B |
While with a smitten hollow tone | A |
The forest drops its shadow leafage | F |
Upon the fields the mists lie white | G |
In lusty caravans the wild geese | H |
Now to the milder South take flight | G |
Seasons of tedium draw near | I |
Before the door November drear | I |
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From shivering mist ascends the morning | D |
The bustle of the fields declines | J |
The wolf walks now upon the highway | K |
In wolfish hunger howls and whines | J |
The traveller's pony scents him snorting | D |
The heedful wanderer breathless takes | L |
His way in haste beyond the mountains | E |
And though no longer when day breaks | L |
Forth from their stalls the herd begins | M |
To drive the kine his noon day horn recalls | N |
The peasant maiden sings and spins | M |
Before her crackling flaming bright | G |
The pine chips friend of Winter night | G |
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And see The hoar frost colder sparkles | O |
And spreads its silver o'er the fields | P |
Alas the golden days are vanished | Q |
Reluctant Nature mournful yields | P |
The stream with ice all frozen over | I |
Gleams as some fashionable parquet | K |
And thronging hordes of boyish skaters | R |
Sweep forward on its crystal way | K |
On her red claws despondent swimming | D |
The plump goose parts the water cold | S |
Then on the ice with caution stalking | D |
She slips and tumbles ah behold | S |
Now the first snowflake idling down | A |
Stars the depressing landscape brown | A |
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At such a season in the country | I |
What can a man's amusements be | I |
Walk And but more of empty highway | K |
And of deserted village see | I |
Or let him through the far Steppes gallop | T |
His horse can scarcely stand at all | U |
His stamping hoofs in vain seek foothold | S |
The rider dreading lest he fall | U |
So then remain within thy paling | D |
Read thou in Pradt or Walter Scott | V |
Compare thy varying editions | E |
Drink and thy scoffing mood spare not | V |
As the long evenings drag away | K |
So doth the Winter too delay | K |
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FROM 'ONEGIN' | A |
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Sometimes he read aloud with Olga | D |
A latter day romance discreet | W |
Whose author truly painted nature | I |
With cunning plot insight complete | W |
Oft he passed over a few pages | X |
Too bald or tasteless in their art | Y |
And coloring began on further | I |
Not to disturb the maiden heart | Y |
Again they sat for hours together | I |
With but a chess board to divide | Z |
She with her arms propped on the table | A2 |
Deep pondering puzzled to decide | Z |
Till Lenski from his inward storm | B2 |
Captured her castle with his pawn | A |
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FROM 'ONEGIN' | A |
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Love condescends to every altar | I |
Ah when in hearts of youth it springs | C2 |
Its coming brings such glad refreshment | D2 |
As May rain o'er the pasture flings | C2 |
Lifted from passion's melancholy | I |
The life breaks forth in fairer flower | I |
The soul receives a new enrichment | D2 |
Fruition sweet and full of power | I |
But when on later altars arid | E2 |
It downward sweeps about us flows | F2 |
Love leaves behind such deathly traces | X |
As Autumn tempests where it blows | F2 |
To strip the woods with ruthless hand | C |
And turn to soggy waste the land | C |
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FROM 'ONEGIN' | A |
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How sad to me is thine appearing | D |
O Springtime hour of love's unrest | G2 |
Within the soul what nameless languors | F2 |
What passions hid within the breast | G2 |
With what a heavy heavy spirit | H2 |
From the earth's rustic lap I feel | I2 |
Again the joy of Springtide odors | F2 |
That once could make my spirit reel | I2 |
No more for me such pleasures thrilling | D |
All that rejoices that has life | J2 |
All that exults brings but despondence | F2 |
To one past passion as past strife | J2 |
All is but prose to such as he | I |
Wearied unto satiety | H2 |
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Perchance we fain would pass unnoticed | H2 |
That which in Autumn drooped and pined | H2 |
Now radiant in verdure springing | D |
Since it must of our loss remind | H2 |
As with a tortured soul we realize | F2 |
In Nature's glad awakening | D |
That we shall never find renewal | A2 |
Who evermore are withering | D |
Perchance there haunts us in remembrance | F2 |
Our own most dear and lyric dream | K2 |
Another long forgotten Springtime | L2 |
And trembling neath this pang supreme | K2 |
The heart faints for a distant country | I |
And for a night beside the sea | I |
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin
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