April Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBBDD EFEFFGG HIHIIJJ KLKLLDD MNMNNII OPOPPHH IQIQQBB RBRBBII STSTTII UVUVVWW DXDXXIIPale season watcher in unvexed suspense | A |
Still priestess of the patient middle day | B |
Betwixt wild March's humored petulance | C |
And the warm wooing of green kirtled May | B |
Maid month of sunny peace and sober grey | B |
Weaver of flowers in sunward glades that ring | D |
With murmur of libation to the spring | D |
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As memory of pain all past is peace | E |
And joy dream tasted hath the deepest cheer | F |
So art thou sweetest of all months that lease | E |
The twelve short spaces of the flying year | F |
The bloomless days are dead and frozen fear | F |
No more for many moons shall vex the earth | G |
Dreaming of summer and fruit laden mirth | G |
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The grey song sparrows full of spring have sung | H |
Their clear thin silvery tunes in leafless trees | I |
The robin hops and whistles and among | H |
The silver tasseled poplars the brown bees | I |
Murmur faint dreams of summer harvestries | I |
The creamy sun at even scatters down | J |
A gold green mist across the murmuring town | J |
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By the slow streams the frogs all day and night | K |
Dream without thought of pain or heed of ill | L |
Watching the long warm silent hours take flight | K |
And ever with soft throats that pulse and thrill | L |
From the pale weeded shallows trill and trill | L |
Tremulous sweet voices flute like answering | D |
One to another glorying in the spring | D |
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All day across the ever cloven soil | M |
Strong horses labour steaming in the sun | N |
Down the long furrows with slow straining toil | M |
Turning the brown of clean layers and one by one | N |
The crows gloom over them till daylight done | N |
Finds them asleep somewhere in dusked lines | I |
Beyond the wheatlands in the northern pines | I |
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The old year's cloaking of brown leaves that bind | O |
The forest floor ways plated close and true | P |
The last love's labour of the autumn wind | O |
Is broken with curled flower buds white and blue | P |
In all the matted hollows and speared through | P |
With thousand serpent spotted blades up sprung | H |
Yet bloomless of the slender adder tongue | H |
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In the warm noon the south wind creeps and cools | I |
Where the red budded stems of maples throw | Q |
Still tangled etchings on the amber pools | I |
Quite silent now forgetful of the slow | Q |
Drip of the taps the troughs and trampled snow | Q |
The keen March mornings and the silvering rime | B |
And mirthful labour of the sugar prime | B |
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Ah I have wandered with unwearied feet | R |
All the long sweetness of an April day | B |
Lulled with cool murmurs and the drowsy beat | R |
Of partridge wings in secret thickets grey | B |
The marriage hymns of all the birds at play | B |
The faces of sweet flowers and easeful dreams | I |
Beside slow reaches of frog haunted streams | I |
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Wandered with happy feet and quite forgot | S |
The shallow toil the strife against the grain | T |
Near souls that hear us call but answer not | S |
The loneliness perplexity and pain | T |
And high thoughts cankered with an earthly stain | T |
And then the long draught emptied to the lees | I |
I turn me homeward in slow pacing ease | I |
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Cleaving the cedar shadows and the thin | U |
Mist of grey gnats that cloud the river shore | V |
Sweet even choruses that dance and spin | U |
Soft tangles in the sunset and once more | V |
The city smites me with its dissonant roar | V |
To its hot heart I pass untroubled yet | W |
Fed with calm hope without desire or fret | W |
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So to the year's first alter step I bring | D |
Gifts of meek song and make my spirit free | X |
With the blind working if unanxious spring | D |
Careless with her whether the days that flee | X |
Pale drouth or golden fruited plenty see | X |
So that we toil brothers without distress | I |
In calm eyed peace and god like blamelessness | I |
Archibald Lampman
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