A Year's Carols Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEEDFG ACCHIIHJK LMMNEENDD OMMPEEPQQ NEEERRENN SEEHTTHUU VWWEAAESS EXXMYYMTT ZIISA2A2SCC ZSSPEEPEE ZB2B2C2D2D2C2AA ZXXSMMSAA

JANUARYA
HAIL January that bearest hereB
On snowbright breasts the babe faced yearC
That weeps and trembles to be bornD
Hail maid and mother strong and brightE
Hooded and cloaked and shod with whiteE
Whose eyes are stars that match the mornD
Thy forehead braves the storm's bent bowF
Thy feet enkindle stars of snowG
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FEBRUARYA
Wan February with weeping cheerC
Whose cold hand guides the youngling yearC
Down misty roads of mire and rimeH
Before thy pale and fitful faceI
The shrill wind shifts the clouds apaceI
Through skies the morning scarce may climbH
Thine eyes are thick with heavy tearsJ
But lit with hopes that light the year'sK
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MARCHL
Hail happy March whose foot on earthM
Rings as the blast of martial mirthM
When trumpets fire men's hearts for frayN
No race of wild things winged or finnedE
May match the might that wings thy windE
Through air and sea through scud and sprayN
Strong joy and thou were powers twin bornD
Of tempest and the towering mornD
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APRILO
Crowned April king whose kiss bade earthM
Bring forth to time her lordliest birthM
When Shakespeare from thy lips drew breathP
And laughed to hold in one soft handE
A spell that bade the world's wheel standE
And power on life and power on deathP
With quiring suns and sunbright showersQ
Praise him the flower of all thy flowersQ
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MAYN
Hail May whose bark puts forth full sailedE
For summer May whom Chaucer hailedE
With all his happy might of heartE
And gave thy rosebright daisy tipsR
Strange frarance from his amorous lipsR
That still thine own breath seems to partE
And sweeten till each word they sayN
Is even a flower of flowering MayN
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JUNES
Strong June superb serene elateE
With conscience of thy sovereign stateE
Untouched of thunder though the stormH
Scathe here and there thy shuddering skiesT
And bid its lightning cross thine eyesT
With fire thy golden hours informH
Earth and the souls of men with lifeU
That brings forth peace from shining strifeU
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JULYV
Hail proud July whose fervent mouthW
Bids even be morn and north be southW
By grace and gospel of thy wordE
Whence all the splendour of the seaA
Lies breathless with delight in theeA
And marvel at the music heardE
From the ardent silent lips of noonS
And midnight's rapturous pleniluneS
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AUGUSTE
Great August lord of golden landsX
Whose lordly joy through seas and strandsX
And all the red ripe heart of earthM
Strikes passion deep as life and stillsY
The folded vales and folding hillsY
With gladness too divine for mirthM
The gracious glories of thine eyesT
Make night a noon where darkness diesT
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SEPTEMBERZ
Hail kind September friend whose graceI
Renews the bland year's bounteous faceI
With largess given of corn and wineS
Through many a land that laughs with loveA2
Of thee and all the heaven aboveA2
More fruitful found than all save thineS
Whose skies fulfil with strenuous cheerC
The fervent fields that knew thee nearC
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OCTOBERZ
October of the tawny crownS
Whose heavy laden hands drop downS
Blessing the bounties of thy breathP
And mildness of thy mellowing mightE
Fill earth and heaven with love and lightE
Too sweet for fear to dream of deathP
Or memory while thy joy lives yetE
To know what joy would fain forgetE
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NOVEMBERZ
Hail soft November though thy paleB2
Sad smile rebuke the words that hailB2
Thy sorrow with no sorrowing wordsC2
Or gratulate thy grief with songD2
Less bitter than the winds that wrongD2
Thy withering woodlands where the birdsC2
Keep hardly heart to sing or seeA
How fair thy faint wan face may beA
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DECEMBERZ
December thou whose hallowing handsX
On shuddering seas and hardening landsX
Set as a sacramental signS
The seal of Christmas felt on earthM
As witness toward a new year's birthM
Whose promise makes thy death divineS
The crowning joy that comes of theeA
Makes glad all grief on land or seaA

Algernon Charles Swinburne



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