The Passing Of Spring Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHI JJK L F MMCC NNOO FFPP FFQQ RRSS TTU VVOO PPWW RRR XXYY FFGG Z| Spring came out of the woodland chase | A |
| With her violet eyes and her primrose face | A |
| With an iris scarf for her sole apparel | B |
| And a voice as blithe as a blackbird's carol | B |
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| As she flitted by garth and slipped through glade | C |
| Her light limbs winnowed the wind and made | C |
| The gold of the pollened palm to float | D |
| On her budding bosom and dimpled throat | D |
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| Then brushing the nut sweet gorse she sped | E |
| Where the runnel lisps in its reedy bed | E |
| O'er shepherded pasture and crested fallow | F |
| And buskined her thigh with strips of sallow | F |
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| By the marigold marsh she paused to twist | G |
| The gold green coils round her blue veined wrist | G |
| And out of the water bed scooped the cresses | H |
| And frolicked them round her braidless tresses | I |
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| She passed by the hazel dell and lifted | J |
| The coverlet fern where the snow had drifted | J |
| To see if it there still lingered on | K |
| Then shook the catkins and laughed 'Tis gone ' | - |
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| Through the crimson tips of the wintry brake | L |
| She peeped and shouted Awake Awake ' | - |
| And over the hill and down the hollow | F |
| She called I have come So follow follow ' | - |
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| Then the windflower looked through the crumbling mould | M |
| And the celandine opened its eyes of gold | M |
| And the primrose sallied from chestnut shade | C |
| And carried the common and stormed the glade | C |
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| In sheltered orchard and windy heath | N |
| The dauntless daffodils slipped their sheath | N |
| And glittering close in clump and cluster | O |
| Dared norland tempests to blow and bluster | O |
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| Round crouching cottage and soaring castle | F |
| The larch unravelled its bright green tassel | F |
| In scrub and hedgerow the blackthorn flowered | P |
| And laughed at the May for a lagging coward | P |
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| Then tenderly ringing old Winter's knell | F |
| The hyacinth swung its soundless bell | F |
| And over and under and through and through | Q |
| The copses there shimmered a sea of blue | Q |
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| Like a sunny shadow of cloudlet fleeting | R |
| Spring skimmed the pastures where lambs were bleating | R |
| Along with them gambolled by bole and mound | S |
| And raced and chased with them round and round | S |
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| To the cuckoo she called Why lag you now | T |
| The woodpecker nests in the rotten bough | T |
| The song thrush pipes to his brooding mate | U |
| And the thistlefinch pairs you alone are late ' | - |
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| Then over the seasonless sea he came | V |
| And jocundly answered her name for name | V |
| And falsely flitting from copse to cover | O |
| Made musical mock of the jilted lover | O |
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| But with him there came the faithful bird | P |
| That lives with the stars and is nightly heard | P |
| When the husht babe dimples the mother's breast | W |
| And Spring said sighing I love you best | W |
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| For sweet is the sorrow that sobs in song | R |
| When Love is stronger than Death is strong | R |
| And the vanished Past a more living thing | R |
| Than the fleeting voice and the fickle wing ' | - |
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| Then the meadows grew golden the lawns grew white | X |
| And the poet lark sang himself out of sight | X |
| And English maidens and English lanes | Y |
| Were serenaded by endless strains | Y |
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| The hawthorn put on her bridal veil | F |
| And milk splashed foaming in pan and pail | F |
| The swain and his sweeting met and kissed | G |
| And the air and the sky were amethyst | G |
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| Now scythes are whetted and roses blow ' | - |
| Spring carolling said It is time to go ' | - |
| And though we called to her Stay O stay ' | - |
| She smiled through a rainbow and passed away | Z |
Alfred Austin
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