Winter Hue's Recalled Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDECFGAHCIJKLAMNOC PCQRR JSRTMUVCWCCXYC ZA2B2CCFC2D2E2F2QYOG 2H2RCB2CI2FHCCCCJ2EK 2L2CM2SCN2CRD2O2CI2P 2CCCI2RAA CCQ2CACACCR2S2C

Life is not all for effort there are hoursA
When fancy breaks from the exacting willB
And rebel though takes schoolboy's holidayC
Rejoicing in its idle strength 'Tis thenD
And only at such moments that we knowE
The treasure of hours gone scenes once beheldC
Sweet voices and words bright and beautifulF
Impetuous deeds that woke the God within usG
The loveliness of forms and thoughts and colorsA
A moment marked and then as soon forgottenH
These things are ever near us laid awayC
Hidden and waiting the appropriate timesI
In the quiet garner house of memoryJ
There in the silent unaccounted depthK
Beneath the heated strainage and the rushL
That teem the noisy surface of the hoursA
All things that ever touched us are stored upM
Growing more mellow like sealed wine with ageN
We thought them dead and they are but asleepO
In moments when the heart is most at restC
And least expectant from the luminous doorsP
And sacred dwelling place of things unfearedC
They issue forth and we who never knewQ
Till then how potent and how real they wereR
Take them and wonder and so bless the hourR
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Such gifts are sweetest when unsought To meJ
As I was loitering lately in my dreamsS
Passing from one remembrance to anotherR
Like him who reads upon an outstretched mapT
Content and idly happy these rose upM
Out of that magic well stored picture houseU
No dream rather a thing most keenly realV
The memory of a moment when with feetC
Arrested and spell bound and captured eyesW
Made wide with joy and wonder I beheldC
The spaces of a white and wintery landC
Swept with the fire of sunset all its widthX
Vale forest town and misty eminenceY
A miracle of color and of beautyC
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I had walked out as I remember nowZ
With covered ears for the bright air was keenA2
To southward up the gleaming snow packed fieldsB2
With the snowshoer's long rejoicing strideC
Marching at ease It was a radiant dayC
In February the month of the great struggleF
'Twixt sun and frost when with advancing spearsC2
The glittering golden vanguard of the springD2
Holds the broad winter's yet unbroken rearE2
In long closed wavering contest Thin pale threadsF2
Like streaks of ash across the far off blueQ
Were drawn nor seemed to move A brooding silenceY
Kept all the land a stillness as of sleepO
But in the east the grey and motionless woodsG2
Watching the great sun's fiery slow declineH2
Grew deep with gold To westward all was silverR
An hour had passed above me I had reachedC
The loftiest level of the snow piled fieldsB2
Clear eyed but unobservant noting notC
That all the plain beneath me and the hillsI2
Took on a change of colour splendid gradualF
Leaving no spot the same nor that the sunH
Now like a fiery torrent overflamedC
The great line of the west Ere yet I turnedC
With long stride homeward being heatedC
With the loose swinging motion weary tooC
Nor uninclined to rest a buried fenceJ2
Whose topmost log just shouldered from the snowE
Made me a seat and thence with heated cheeksK2
Grazed by the northwind's edge of stinging iceL2
I looked far out upon the snow bound wasteC
The lifting hills and intersecting forestsM2
The scarce marked courses of the buried streamsS
And as I looked I list memory of the frostC
Transfixed with wonder overborne with joyN2
I saw them in their silence and their beautyC
Swept by the sunset's rapid hand of fireR
Sudden mysterious every moment deepeningD2
To some new majesty of rose or flameO2
The whole broad west was like molten seaC
Of crimson In the north the light lined hillsI2
Were veiled far off as with a mist of roseP2
Wondrous and soft Along the darkening eastC
The gold of all the forests slowly changedC
To purple In the valley far before meC
Low sunk in sapphire shadows from its hillsI2
Softer and lovelier than an opening flowerR
Uprose a city with its sun touched towersA
A bunch of amethystsA
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Like one spell boundC
Caught in the presence of some god I stoodC
Nor felt the keen wind and the deadly airQ2
But watched the sun go down and watched the goldC
Fade from the town and the withdrawing hillsA
Their westward shapes athwart the dusky redC
Freeze into sapphire saw the arc of roseA
Rise ever higher in the violet eastC
Above the frore front of the uprearing nightC
Remorsefully soft and sweet Then I awokeR2
As from a dream and from my shoulders shookS2
The warning chill till then unfelt unfearedC

Archibald Lampman



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