Winter In Northumberland Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDDCEEEFGGF HHHGEEEGEEEGAAG HHHAEEEAAAAGHHG EEEHEEEHIIIIEEI AAJHEEEHEEEHHHH GGGKEEELEEEMEEM GGGNGGGNOOONGGN EEEPGGGQFFFIGGI JAJREEEREEEEEEE EEEGAAAGEEEGEEG EEEHHHHHNNNNHHN HHHHAAAHHHHGEEG EEENEEENEEEEGGE HHHSFFFSGGGSGGS EEENEEENIIINEEN GGGGEEEGIIINIINOutside the garden | A |
The wet skies harden | A |
The gates are barred on | B |
The summer side | C |
Shut out the flower time | D |
Sunbeam and shower time | D |
Make way for our time | D |
Wild winds have cried | C |
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 |
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Through fell and moorland | H |
And salt sea foreland | H |
Our noisy norland | H |
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 | A |
Where when leaves quicken | A |
Under the heather the sundew hides | G |
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Green land and red land | H |
Moorside and headland | H |
Are white as dead land | H |
Are all as one | A |
Nor honied heather | E |
Nor bells to gather | E |
Fair with fair weather | E |
And faithful sun | A |
Fierce frost has eaten | A |
All flowers that sweeten | A |
The fells rain beaten | A |
And winds their foes | G |
Have made the snow's bed | H |
Down in the rose bed | H |
Deep in the snow's bed bury the rose | G |
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Bury her deeper | E |
Than any sleeper | E |
Sweet dreams will keep her | E |
All day all night | H |
Though sleep benumb her | E |
And time o'ercome her | E |
She dreams of summer | E |
And takes delight | H |
Dreaming and sleeping | I |
In love's good keeping | I |
While rain is weeping | I |
And no leaves cling | I |
Winds will come bringing her | E |
Comfort and singing her | E |
Stories and songs and good news of the spring | I |
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Draw the white curtain | A |
Close and be certain | A |
She takes no hurt in | J |
Her soft low bed | H |
She feels no colder | E |
And grows not older | E |
Though snows enfold her | E |
From foot to head | H |
She turns not chilly | E |
Like weed and lily | E |
In marsh or hilly | E |
High watershed | H |
Or green soft island | H |
In lakes of highland | H |
She sleeps awhile and she is not dead | H |
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For all the hours | G |
Come sun come showers | G |
Are friends of flowers | G |
And fairies all | K |
When frost entrapped her | E |
They came and lapped her | E |
In leaves and wrapped her | E |
With shroud and pall | L |
In red leaves wound her | E |
With dead leaves bound her | E |
Dead brows and round her | E |
A death knell rang | M |
Rang the death bell for her | E |
Sang is it well for her | E |
Well is it well with you rose they sang | M |
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O what and where is | G |
The rose now fairies | G |
So shrill the air is | G |
So wild the sky | N |
Poor last of roses | G |
Her worst of woes is | G |
The noise she knows is | G |
The winter's cry | N |
His hunting hollo | O |
Has scared the swallow | O |
Fain would she follow | O |
And fain would fly | N |
But wind unsettles | G |
Her poor last petals | G |
Had she but wings and she would not die | N |
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Come as you love her | E |
Come close and cover | E |
Her white face over | E |
And forth again | P |
Ere sunset glances | G |
On foam that dances | G |
Through lowering lances | G |
Of bright white rain | Q |
And make your playtime | F |
Of winter's daytime | F |
As if the Maytime | F |
Were here to sing | I |
As if the snowballs | G |
Were soft like blowballs | G |
Blown in a mist from the stalk in the spring | I |
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Each reed that grows in | J |
Our stream is frozen | A |
The fields it flows in | J |
Are hard and black | R |
The water fairy | E |
Waits wise and wary | E |
Till time shall vary | E |
And thaws come back | R |
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 |
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But winds will vary | E |
And wise and wary | E |
The patient fairy | E |
Of water waits | G |
All shrunk and wizen | A |
In iron prison | A |
Till spring re risen | A |
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 |
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In fierce March weather | E |
White waves break tether | E |
And whirled together | E |
At either hand | H |
Like weeds uplifted | H |
The tree trunks rifted | H |
In spars are drifted | H |
Like foam or sand | H |
Past swamp and sallow | N |
And reed beds callow | N |
Through pool and shallow | N |
To wind and lee | N |
Till no more tongue tied | H |
Full flood and young tide | H |
Roar down the rapids and storm the sea | N |
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As men's cheeks faded | H |
On shores invaded | H |
When shorewards waded | H |
The lords of fight | H |
When churl and craven | A |
Saw hard on haven | A |
The wide winged raven | A |
At mainmast height | H |
When monks affrighted | H |
To windward sighted | H |
The birds full flighted | H |
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 |
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O strong sea sailor | E |
Whose cheek turns paler | E |
For wind or hail or | E |
For fear of thee | N |
O far sea farer | E |
O thunder bearer | E |
Thy songs are rarer | E |
Than soft songs be | N |
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 |
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Roll the strong stream of it | H |
Up till the scream of it | H |
Wake from a dream of it | H |
Children that sleep | S |
Seamen that fare for them | F |
Forth with a prayer for them | F |
Shall not God care for them | F |
Angels not keep | S |
Spare not the surges | G |
Thy stormy scourges | G |
Spare us the dirges | G |
Of wives that weep | S |
Turn back the waves for us | G |
Dig no fresh graves for us | G |
Wind in the manifold gulfs of the deep | S |
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O stout north easter | E |
Sea king land waster | E |
For all thine haste or | E |
Thy stormy skill | N |
Yet hadst thou never | E |
For all endeavour | E |
Strength to dissever | E |
Or strength to spill | N |
Save of his giving | I |
Who gave our living | I |
Whose hands are weaving | I |
What ours fulfil | N |
Whose feet tread under | E |
The storms and thunder | E |
Who made our wonder to work his will | N |
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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 | I |
And fruits in growing | I |
Time in its going | I |
While time shall be | N |
In death and living | I |
With one thanksgiving | I |
Praise him whose hand is the strength of the sea | N |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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