December Matins Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAACDBEEBDFFD GBGGBBBGGBBGGB BBBBBADGGDAFFA HIJJJAAFFAAKLA| Why on this drear December morn | A |
| Dost thou lone Misselthrush rehearse thy chanting | B |
| The corals have been rifled from the thorn | A |
| The pastures lie undenizened and lorn | A |
| And everywhere around there seems a something wanting '' | C |
| Whereat as tho' awondering at my wonder | D |
| And brooded somewhere nigh a love mate nesting | B |
| He more loud and longer still | E |
| 'Gan to tremble and to trill | E |
| Height after height of sound robustly breasting | B |
| As if o'erhead were Heaven of blue and under | D |
| Fresh green leafage and he would | F |
| Cleave with shafts of hardihood | F |
| The mists asunder | D |
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| Only the singer it is foresees | G |
| Only the Poet has the voice foretelling | B |
| When the ways harden and the sedge pools freeze | G |
| He hears light hearted Spring upon the breeze | G |
| And feels the hawthorn buds mysteriously swelling | B |
| Though to the eaves the icicles are clinging | B |
| Or from the sunward gables dripping dripping | B |
| He with inward gaze beholds | G |
| Liberated flocks and folds | G |
| The runnels leaping and the young lambs skipping | B |
| And dauntless daffodils anew upspringing | B |
| So throughout the wintry days | G |
| Meditates prophetic lays | G |
| And keeps on singing | B |
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| Not the full volumed Springtime song | B |
| Not April's note with rapture overflowing | B |
| Melodious cadence early late and long | B |
| Now low and suing now serenely strong | B |
| But the heart's intimations musically showing | B |
| That Love and Verse are never out of season | A |
| Though the winds bluster and the branches splinter | D |
| He through cold and dire distress | G |
| Companioned by cheerfulness | G |
| Descries young Mayday through the mask of Winter | D |
| Doubt and despair to him were veil d treason | A |
| Fashioned never to despond | F |
| By Foreseeing far beyond | F |
| The range of Reason | A |
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| Therefore brave bird sing on for some to hear | H |
| If faintly fitfully and though to morrow | I |
| Will be the shortest day of all the year | J |
| Though fields be flowerless and fallows drear | J |
| And earth seems cherishing some secret sorrow | J |
| The dawn will come when it anew will glisten | A |
| With tears of gladness glen and dingle waken | A |
| Winter's tents be furled and routed | F |
| April notes be sung and shouted | F |
| Over the fleeing host and camp forsaken | A |
| The nightingale ne'er cease the cuckoo christen | A |
| Hedgerow posies with its call | K |
| And unto glee and madrigal | L |
| The whole world listen | A |
Alfred Austin
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