Farewell To Spring Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAA BBB CCC DDD EEE FFF GGG HHH III JJ HHH BBB KKK LL KKK MMM NNN OOO| I saw this morning with a sudden smart | A |
| Spring preparing to depart | A |
| I know her well and so I told her all my heart | A |
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| Why did you Spring your coming so delay | B |
| If now here you cannot stay | B |
| You win my love and then unloving pass away | B |
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| We waited waited O so long so long | C |
| Just to hear the ousel's song | C |
| To morrow 'twill be hushed to day that is so strong | C |
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| Day after day and dawn again on dawn | D |
| Winter's shroud was on the lawn | D |
| So still so smooth we thought 'twould never be withdrawn | D |
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| Now that at last your welcome mimic snow | E |
| Doth upon the hawthorn blow | E |
| It bides not on the bough but melts before we know | E |
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| Scarce hath the primrose o'er the sordid mould | F |
| Lavished treasure than behold | F |
| Our wealth of simple joy is robbed of all its gold | F |
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| When to the woods we hie with feet of mirth | G |
| Now the hyacinths have birth | G |
| Swiftly the blue of Heaven fades from the face of earth | G |
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| You with dry gusts and unrelenting wrack | H |
| Kept the liquid cuckoo back | H |
| Now even ere he goes he turneth hoarse alack | H |
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| When in the long warm nights of June | I |
| Nightingales have got their tune | I |
| Their sweet woe dies and we are beggared of the boon | I |
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| First drops the bloom then darkens the green leaf | J |
| Everything in life is brief | J |
| Save autumn's deepening gloom and winter's changeless grief '' | - |
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| Then with a smile thus answered me the Spring | H |
| To my voice and flight you cling | H |
| For I before I perch again am on the wing | H |
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| With you were I the whole year round to stay | B |
| 'Twould be you that went away | B |
| Your love made fickle by monotony of May | B |
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| Love cannot live save upon love beyond | K |
| Leaving you I keep you fond | K |
| Not letting you despair but making you despond | K |
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| Farewell and love me still my lover dear | L |
| Love me till another year | L |
| And you if you be true again will find me here '' | - |
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| Then darker deeper waxed the woods the ground | K |
| Flowerless turned and then embrowned | K |
| And less was of sweet scent and less was of sweet sound | K |
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| Mute was the mavis moulted was the thorn | M |
| Meads were cut and lambs were shorn | M |
| And I by Spring was left forsaken and forlorn | M |
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| Forlorn forsaken shall I be until | N |
| Primrose peep and throstle shrill | N |
| And in the orchard gleam the outriding daffodil | N |
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| Then shall I know that Spring among the trees | O |
| Hiding is and that the breeze | O |
| Anew will fling abroad odours and melodies | O |
Alfred Austin
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