A March Minstrel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IAIA AJAJ KLKL GAGA MNMN KOKO APAP AQAQ RSRS| Hail once again that sweet strong note | A |
| Loud on my loftiest larch | B |
| Thou quaverest with thy mottled throat | A |
| Brave minstrel of bleak March | B |
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| Hearing thee flute who pines or grieves | C |
| For vernal smiles and showers | D |
| Thy voice is greener than the leaves | C |
| And fresher than the flowers | D |
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| Scorning to wait for tuneful May | E |
| When every throat can sing | F |
| Thou floutest Winter with thy lay | E |
| And art thyself the Spring | F |
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| While daffodils half mournful still | G |
| Muffle their golden bells | H |
| Thy silvery peal o'er landscape chill | G |
| Surges and sinks and swells | H |
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| Across the unsheltered pasture floats | I |
| The young lamb's shivering bleat | A |
| There is no trembling in thy notes | I |
| For all the snow and sleet | A |
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| Let the bullace bide till frosts have ceased | A |
| The blackthorn loiter long | J |
| Undaunted by the blustering east | A |
| Thou burgeonest into song | J |
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| Yet who can wonder thou dost dare | K |
| Confront what others flee | L |
| Thy carol cuts the keen March air | K |
| Keener than it cuts Thee | L |
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| The selfish cuckoo tarrieth till | G |
| April repays his boast | A |
| Thou thou art lavish of thy trill | G |
| Now when we need it most | A |
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| The nightingale while birds are coy | M |
| Delays to chant its grief | N |
| Brave throstle thou dost pipe for joy | M |
| With never a bough in leaf | N |
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| Even fond turtle doves forbear | K |
| To coo till woods are warm | O |
| Thou hast the heart to love and pair | K |
| Ere the cherry blossoms swarm | O |
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| The skylark fluttering to be heard | A |
| In realms beyond his birth | P |
| Soars vainly heavenward Thou wise bird | A |
| Art satisfied with earth | P |
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| Thy home is not upon the ground | A |
| Thy hope not in the sky | Q |
| Near to thy nest thy notes resound | A |
| Neither too low nor high | Q |
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| Blow what wind will thou dost rejoice | R |
| To carol and build and woo | S |
| Throstle to me impart thy voice | R |
| Impart thy wisdom too | S |
Alfred Austin
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