Xvi: Spring Morning Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEG HGHG IGIG JKJK| Star and coronal and bell | A |
| April underfoot renews | B |
| And the hope of man as well | A |
| Flowers among the morning dews | B |
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| Now the old come out to look | C |
| Winter past and winter's pains | D |
| How the sky in pool and brook | C |
| Glitters on the grassy plains | D |
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| Easily the gentle air | E |
| Wafts the turning season on | F |
| Things to comfort them are there | E |
| Though 'tis true the best are gone | G |
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| Now the scorned unlucky lad | H |
| Rousing from his pillow gnawn | G |
| Mans his heart and deep and glad | H |
| Drinks the valiant air of dawn | G |
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| Half the night he longed to die | I |
| Now are sown on hill and plain | G |
| Pleasures worth his while to try | I |
| Ere he longs to die again | G |
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| Blue the sky from east to west | J |
| Arches and the world is wide | K |
| Though the girl he loves the best | J |
| Rouses from another's side | K |
Alfred Edward Housman
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