Another Spring Carol Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDD AECEFF DGDGFF HIJIJJ KJKJJJ JLJLKK KMKMJJ DNDNFF DODODD OJOJPP DQDQJ JRJRFF FOFOFF OJOJDDNow 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 '' | - |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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