Another Spring Carol Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDD AECEFF DGDGFF HIJIJJ KJKJJJ JLJLKK KMKMJJ DNDNFF DODODD OJOJPP DQDQJ JRJRFF FOFOFF OJOJDD| Now Winter hath drifted | A |
| To bygone years | B |
| And the sod is uplifted | C |
| By crocus spears | B |
| And out of the hive the bee wings humming | D |
| And we know that the Spring the Spring is coming | D |
| - | |
| For the snow hath melted | A |
| From sunless cleft | E |
| And the clouds that pelted | C |
| Slant sleet have left | E |
| The sky as blue as a child's gaze after | F |
| Its tears have vanished and veered to laughter | F |
| - | |
| See light is gleaming | D |
| In primrose brakes | G |
| And out of its dreaming | D |
| The speedwell wakes | G |
| And the tender tips of the timid clover | F |
| Peep forth to see if the frost be over | F |
| - | |
| The celandine gazes | H |
| Straight at the sun | I |
| The starlike daisies | J |
| Peer one by one | I |
| And over the pool where the sallow glistens | J |
| The daffodil hangs its head and listens | J |
| - | |
| At first but single | K |
| And then in flocks | J |
| In dell and dingle | K |
| The lady smocks | J |
| Make mist for the golden cowslip tapers | J |
| To shine like sunrise through morning vapours | J |
| - | |
| In fat ribbed fallows | J |
| The lapwings nest | L |
| And the home coming swallows | J |
| Seek out where best | L |
| They may build with a love that is sure and stable | K |
| Their cosy cribs under last year's gable | K |
| - | |
| The blackcaps treble | K |
| A strain as sweet | M |
| As stream o'er pebble | K |
| Or wind through wheat | M |
| While like flickering light the kinglet hovers | J |
| Round woodbined haven of hiding lovers | J |
| - | |
| The lark chants soaring | D |
| From moist brown heath | N |
| 'Twixt Heaven's high flooring | D |
| And earth beneath | N |
| Like a true wise poet in wavering weather | F |
| A carol to link the twain together | F |
| - | |
| The cuckoo flaunting | D |
| O'er glen and glade | O |
| Flies loudly vaunting | D |
| New loves betrayed | O |
| Till we all of us echo the madcap saying | D |
| And laugh and joyously wend a'maying | D |
| - | |
| Then in mask and tabard | O |
| The mummer trips | J |
| And out of its scabbard | O |
| The iris slips | J |
| And calls to the lily and rose Why tarry | P |
| Now the nightingale under the silence starry | P |
| - | |
| Keeps trilling trilling | D |
| Its nest above | Q |
| The descant thrilling | D |
| Of straining love | Q |
| That yearneth for more more more till gladness | J |
| Still winged with wanting seems one with sadness '' | - |
| - | |
| But once the roses | J |
| And lilies blow | R |
| Our wilding posies | J |
| Follow the snow | R |
| And turning to greet the fair new comer | F |
| We find the face of the fearless Summer | F |
| - | |
| But though sultry shimmer | F |
| And panting heat | O |
| Lure senses dimmer | F |
| To deem them sweet | O |
| Who would not exchange their passionate thunder | F |
| For May's moist blushes of maiden wonder | F |
| - | |
| But Winter hath drifted | O |
| To bygone years | J |
| And the sod is uplifted | O |
| By crocus spears | J |
| And out of the hive the bee wings humming | D |
| And we know that the Spring is coming coming | D |
Alfred Austin
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