Four Songs Of Four Seasons Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Algernon Charles Swinburne

Four Songs Of Four Seasons Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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I WINTER IN NORTHUMBERLAND	A
OUTSIDE the garden	B
The wet skies harden	B
The gates are barred on	C
The summer side	A
Shut out the flower time	D
Sunbeam and shower time	D
Make way for our time	D
Wild winds have cried	A
Green once and cheery	E
The woods worn weary	E
Sigh as the dreary	E
Weak sun goes home	F
A great wind grapples	G
The wave and dapples	G
The dead green floor of the sea with foam	F
	-
Through fell and moorland	A
And salt sea foreland	A
Our noisy norland	A
Resounds and rings	G
Waste waves thereunder	E
Are blown in sunder	E
And winds make thunder	E
With cloudwide wings	G
Sea drift makes dimmer	E
The beacon's glimmer	E
Nor sail nor swimmer	E
Can try the tides	G
And snowdrifts thicken	B
Where when leaves quicken	B
Under the heather the sundew hides	G
	-
Green land and red land	A
Moorside and headland	A
Are white as dead land	A
Are all as one	B
Nor honied heather	E
Nor bells to gather	E
Fair with fair weather	E
And faithful sun	B
Fierce frost has eaten	B
All flowers that sweeten	B
The fells rain beaten	B
And winds their foes	G
Have made the snow's bed	A
Down in the rose bed	A
Deep in the snow's bed bury the rose	G
	-
Bury her deeper	E
Than any sleeper	E
Sweet dreams will keep her	E
All day all night	A
Though sleep benumb her	E
And time o'ercome her	E
She dreams of summer	E
And takes delight	A
Dreaming and sleeping	H
In love's good keeping	H
While rain is weeping	H
And no leaves cling	H
Winds will come bringing her	E
Comfort and singing her	E
Stories and songs and good news of the spring	H
	-
Draw the white curtain	B
Close and be certain	B
She takes no hurt in	I
Her soft low bed	A
She feels no colder	E
And grows not older	E
Though snows enfold her	E
From foot to head	A
She turns not chilly	E
Like weed and lily	E
In marsh or hilly	E
High watershed	A
Or green soft island	A
In lakes of highland	A
She sleeps awhile and she is not dead	A
	-
For all the hours	G
Come sun come showers	G
Are friends of flowers	G
And fairies all	J
When frost entrapped her	E
They came and lapped her	E
In leaves and wrapped her	E
With shroud and pall	K
In red leaves wound her	E
With dead leaves bound her	E
Dead brows and round her	E
A death knell rang	L
Rang the death bell for her	E
Sang is it well for her	E
Well is it well with you rose they sang	L
	-
O what and where is	G
The rose now fairies	G
So shrill the air is	G
So wild the sky	M
Poor last of roses	G
Her worst of woes is	G
The noise she knows is	G
The winter's cry	M
His hunting hollo	N
Has scared the swallow	N
Fain would she follow	N
And fain would fly	M
But wind unsettles	G
Her poor last petals	G
Had she but wings and she would not die	M
	-
Come as you love her	E
Come close and cover	E
Her white face over	E
And forth again	O
Ere sunset glances	G
On foam that dances	G
Through lowering lances	G
Of bright white rain	P
And make your playtime	F
Of winter's daytime	F
As if the Maytime	F
Were here to sing	H
As if the snowballs	G
Were soft like blowballs	G
Blown in a mist from the stalk in the spring	H
	-
Each reed that grows in	I
Our stream is frozen	B
The fields it flows in	I
Are hard and black	Q
The water fairy	E
Waits wise and wary	E
Till time shall vary	E
And thaws come back	Q
O sister water	E
The wind besought her	E
O twin born daughter	E
Of spring with me	E
Stay with me play with me	E
Take the warm way with me	E
Straight for the summer and oversea	E
	-
But winds will vary	E
And wise and wary	E
The patient fairy	E
Of water waits	G
All shrunk and wizen	B
In iron prison	B
Till spring re risen	B
Unbar the gates	G
Till as with clamor	E
Of axe and hammer	E
Chained streams that stammer	E
And struggle in straits	G
Burst bonds that shiver	E
And thaws deliver	E
The roaring river in stormy spates	G
	-
In fierce March weather	E
White waves break tether	E
And whirled together	E
At either hand	A
Like weeds uplifted	A
The tree trunks rifted	A
In spars are drifted	A
Like foam or sand	A
Past swamp and sallow	M
And reed beds callow	M
Through pool and shallow	M
To wind and lee	M
Till no more tongue tied	A
Full flood and young tide	A
Roar down the rapids and storm the sea	M
	-
As men's cheeks faded	A
On shores invaded	A
When shorewards waded	A
The lords of fight	A
When churl and craven	B
Saw hard on haven	B
The wide winged raven	B
At mainmast height	A
When monks affrighted	A
To windward sighted	A
The birds full flighted	A
Of swift sea kings	G
So earth turns paler	E
When Storm the sailor	E
Steers in with a roar in the race of his wings	G
	-
O strong sea sailor	E
Whose cheek turns paler	E
For wind or hail or	E
For fear of thee	M
O far sea farer	E
O thunder bearer	E
Thy songs are rarer	E
Than soft songs be	M
O fleet foot stranger	E
O north sea ranger	E
Through days of danger	E
And ways of fear	E
Blow thy horn here for us	G
Blow the sky clear for us	G
Send us the song of the sea to hear	E
	-
Roll the strong stream of it	A
Up till the scream of it	A
Wake from a dream of it	A
Children that sleep	R
Seamen that fare for them	F
Forth with a prayer for them	F
Shall not God care for them	F
Angels not keep	R
Spare not the surges	G
Thy stormy scourges	G
Spare us the dirges	G
Of wives that weep	R
Turn back the waves for us	G
Dig no fresh graves for us	G
Wind in the manifold gulfs of the deep	R
	-
O stout north easter	E
Sea king land waster	E
For all thine haste or	E
Thy stormy skill	M
Yet hadst thou never	E
For all endeavour	E
Strength to dissever	E
Or strength to spill	M
Save of his giving	H
Who gave our living	H
Whose hands are weaving	H
What ours fulfil	M
Whose feet tread under	E
The storms and thunder	E
Who made our wonder to work his will	M
	-
His years and hours	G
His world's blind powers	G
His stars and flowers	G
His nights and days	G
Sea tide and river	E
And waves that shiver	E
Praise God the giver	E
Of tongues to praise	G
Winds in their blowing	H
And fruits in growing	H
Time in its going	H
While time shall be	M
In death and living	H
With one thanksgiving	H
Praise him whose hand is the strength of the sea	M
	-
II SPRING IN TUSCANY	M
ROSE RED lilies that bloom on the banner	E
Rose cheeked gardens that revel in spring	H
Rose mouthed acacias that laugh as they climb	F
Like plumes for a queen's hand fashioned to fan her	E
With wind more soft than a wild dove's wing	H
What do they sing in the spring of their time	F
	-
If this be the rose that the world hears singing	H
Soft in the soft night loud in the day	A
Songs for the fireflies to dance as they hear	E
If that be the	S