April Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCBBDD EFEFFGG HIHIIJJ KLKLLDD MNMNNII OPOPPHH IQIQQBB RBRBBII STSTTII UVUVVWW DXDXXII

Pale season watcher in unvexed suspenseA
Still priestess of the patient middle dayB
Betwixt wild March's humored petulanceC
And the warm wooing of green kirtled MayB
Maid month of sunny peace and sober greyB
Weaver of flowers in sunward glades that ringD
With murmur of libation to the springD
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As memory of pain all past is peaceE
And joy dream tasted hath the deepest cheerF
So art thou sweetest of all months that leaseE
The twelve short spaces of the flying yearF
The bloomless days are dead and frozen fearF
No more for many moons shall vex the earthG
Dreaming of summer and fruit laden mirthG
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The grey song sparrows full of spring have sungH
Their clear thin silvery tunes in leafless treesI
The robin hops and whistles and amongH
The silver tasseled poplars the brown beesI
Murmur faint dreams of summer harvestriesI
The creamy sun at even scatters downJ
A gold green mist across the murmuring townJ
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By the slow streams the frogs all day and nightK
Dream without thought of pain or heed of illL
Watching the long warm silent hours take flightK
And ever with soft throats that pulse and thrillL
From the pale weeded shallows trill and trillL
Tremulous sweet voices flute like answeringD
One to another glorying in the springD
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All day across the ever cloven soilM
Strong horses labour steaming in the sunN
Down the long furrows with slow straining toilM
Turning the brown of clean layers and one by oneN
The crows gloom over them till daylight doneN
Finds them asleep somewhere in dusked linesI
Beyond the wheatlands in the northern pinesI
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The old year's cloaking of brown leaves that bindO
The forest floor ways plated close and trueP
The last love's labour of the autumn windO
Is broken with curled flower buds white and blueP
In all the matted hollows and speared throughP
With thousand serpent spotted blades up sprungH
Yet bloomless of the slender adder tongueH
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In the warm noon the south wind creeps and coolsI
Where the red budded stems of maples throwQ
Still tangled etchings on the amber poolsI
Quite silent now forgetful of the slowQ
Drip of the taps the troughs and trampled snowQ
The keen March mornings and the silvering rimeB
And mirthful labour of the sugar primeB
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Ah I have wandered with unwearied feetR
All the long sweetness of an April dayB
Lulled with cool murmurs and the drowsy beatR
Of partridge wings in secret thickets greyB
The marriage hymns of all the birds at playB
The faces of sweet flowers and easeful dreamsI
Beside slow reaches of frog haunted streamsI
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Wandered with happy feet and quite forgotS
The shallow toil the strife against the grainT
Near souls that hear us call but answer notS
The loneliness perplexity and painT
And high thoughts cankered with an earthly stainT
And then the long draught emptied to the leesI
I turn me homeward in slow pacing easeI
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Cleaving the cedar shadows and the thinU
Mist of grey gnats that cloud the river shoreV
Sweet even choruses that dance and spinU
Soft tangles in the sunset and once moreV
The city smites me with its dissonant roarV
To its hot heart I pass untroubled yetW
Fed with calm hope without desire or fretW
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So to the year's first alter step I bringD
Gifts of meek song and make my spirit freeX
With the blind working if unanxious springD
Careless with her whether the days that fleeX
Pale drouth or golden fruited plenty seeX
So that we toil brothers without distressI
In calm eyed peace and god like blamelessnessI

Archibald Lampman



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