The Return Of The Year Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGHG IJIJ KLIL MNMN OPOQ RSRS| Again the warm bare earth the noon | A |
| That hangs upon her healing scars | B |
| The midnight round the great red moon | A |
| The mother with her brood of stars | B |
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| The mist rack and the wakening rain | C |
| Blown soft in many a forest way | D |
| The yellowing elm trees and again | E |
| The blood root in its sheath of gray | D |
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| The vesper sparrow's song the stress | F |
| Of yearning notes that gush and stream | G |
| The lyric joy the tenderness | H |
| And once again the dream the dream | G |
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| A touch of far off joy and power | I |
| A something it is life to learn | J |
| Comes back to earth and one short hour | I |
| The glamours of the gods return | J |
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| This life's old mood and cult of care | K |
| Falls smitten by an older truth | L |
| And the gray world wins back to her | I |
| The rapture of her vanished youth | L |
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| Dead thoughts revive and he that heeds | M |
| Shall hear as by a spirit led | N |
| A song among the golden reeds | M |
| The gods are vanished but not dead | N |
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| For one short hour unseen yet near | O |
| They haunt us a forgotten mood | P |
| A glory upon mead and mere | O |
| A magic in the leafless wood | Q |
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| At morning we shall catch the glow | R |
| Of Dian's quiver on the hill | S |
| And somewhere in the glades I know | R |
| That Pan is at his piping still | S |
Archibald Lampman
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