My Winter Rose Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH IIJJ KKLL MMNN| Why did you come when the trees were bare | A |
| Why did you come with the wintry air | A |
| When the faint note dies in the robin's throat | B |
| And the gables drip and the white flakes float | B |
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| What a strange strange season to choose to come | C |
| When the heavens are blind and the earth is dumb | C |
| When nought is left living to dirge the dead | D |
| And even the snowdrop keeps its bed | D |
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| Could you not come when woods are green | E |
| Could you not come when lambs are seen | E |
| When the primrose laughs from its childlike sleep | F |
| And the violets hide and the bluebells peep | F |
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| When the air as your breath is sweet and skies | G |
| Have all but the soul of your limpid eyes | G |
| And the year growing confident day by day | H |
| Weans lusty June from the breast of May | H |
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| Yet had you come then the lark had lent | I |
| In vain his music the thorn its scent | I |
| In vain the woodbine budded in vain | J |
| The rippling smile of the April rain | J |
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| Your voice would have silenced merle and thrush | K |
| And the rose outbloomed would have blushed to blush | K |
| And Summer seeing you paused and known | L |
| That the glow of your beauty outshone its own | L |
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| So timely you came and well you chose | M |
| You came when most needed my winter rose | M |
| From the snow I pluck you and fondly press | N |
| Your leaves 'twixt the leaves of my leaflessness | N |
Alfred Austin
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