Winter Hue's Recalled Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDECFGAHCIJKLAMNOC PCQRR JSRTMUVCWCCXYC ZA2B2CCFC2D2E2F2QYOG 2H2RCB2CI2FHCCCCJ2EK 2L2CM2SCN2CRD2O2CI2P 2CCCI2RAA CCQ2CACACCR2S2CLife is not all for effort there are hours | A |
When fancy breaks from the exacting will | B |
And rebel though takes schoolboy's holiday | C |
Rejoicing in its idle strength 'Tis then | D |
And only at such moments that we know | E |
The treasure of hours gone scenes once beheld | C |
Sweet voices and words bright and beautiful | F |
Impetuous deeds that woke the God within us | G |
The loveliness of forms and thoughts and colors | A |
A moment marked and then as soon forgotten | H |
These things are ever near us laid away | C |
Hidden and waiting the appropriate times | I |
In the quiet garner house of memory | J |
There in the silent unaccounted depth | K |
Beneath the heated strainage and the rush | L |
That teem the noisy surface of the hours | A |
All things that ever touched us are stored up | M |
Growing more mellow like sealed wine with age | N |
We thought them dead and they are but asleep | O |
In moments when the heart is most at rest | C |
And least expectant from the luminous doors | P |
And sacred dwelling place of things unfeared | C |
They issue forth and we who never knew | Q |
Till then how potent and how real they were | R |
Take them and wonder and so bless the hour | R |
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Such gifts are sweetest when unsought To me | J |
As I was loitering lately in my dreams | S |
Passing from one remembrance to another | R |
Like him who reads upon an outstretched map | T |
Content and idly happy these rose up | M |
Out of that magic well stored picture house | U |
No dream rather a thing most keenly real | V |
The memory of a moment when with feet | C |
Arrested and spell bound and captured eyes | W |
Made wide with joy and wonder I beheld | C |
The spaces of a white and wintery land | C |
Swept with the fire of sunset all its width | X |
Vale forest town and misty eminence | Y |
A miracle of color and of beauty | C |
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I had walked out as I remember now | Z |
With covered ears for the bright air was keen | A2 |
To southward up the gleaming snow packed fields | B2 |
With the snowshoer's long rejoicing stride | C |
Marching at ease It was a radiant day | C |
In February the month of the great struggle | F |
'Twixt sun and frost when with advancing spears | C2 |
The glittering golden vanguard of the spring | D2 |
Holds the broad winter's yet unbroken rear | E2 |
In long closed wavering contest Thin pale threads | F2 |
Like streaks of ash across the far off blue | Q |
Were drawn nor seemed to move A brooding silence | Y |
Kept all the land a stillness as of sleep | O |
But in the east the grey and motionless woods | G2 |
Watching the great sun's fiery slow decline | H2 |
Grew deep with gold To westward all was silver | R |
An hour had passed above me I had reached | C |
The loftiest level of the snow piled fields | B2 |
Clear eyed but unobservant noting not | C |
That all the plain beneath me and the hills | I2 |
Took on a change of colour splendid gradual | F |
Leaving no spot the same nor that the sun | H |
Now like a fiery torrent overflamed | C |
The great line of the west Ere yet I turned | C |
With long stride homeward being heated | C |
With the loose swinging motion weary too | C |
Nor uninclined to rest a buried fence | J2 |
Whose topmost log just shouldered from the snow | E |
Made me a seat and thence with heated cheeks | K2 |
Grazed by the northwind's edge of stinging ice | L2 |
I looked far out upon the snow bound waste | C |
The lifting hills and intersecting forests | M2 |
The scarce marked courses of the buried streams | S |
And as I looked I list memory of the frost | C |
Transfixed with wonder overborne with joy | N2 |
I saw them in their silence and their beauty | C |
Swept by the sunset's rapid hand of fire | R |
Sudden mysterious every moment deepening | D2 |
To some new majesty of rose or flame | O2 |
The whole broad west was like molten sea | C |
Of crimson In the north the light lined hills | I2 |
Were veiled far off as with a mist of rose | P2 |
Wondrous and soft Along the darkening east | C |
The gold of all the forests slowly changed | C |
To purple In the valley far before me | C |
Low sunk in sapphire shadows from its hills | I2 |
Softer and lovelier than an opening flower | R |
Uprose a city with its sun touched towers | A |
A bunch of amethysts | A |
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Like one spell bound | C |
Caught in the presence of some god I stood | C |
Nor felt the keen wind and the deadly air | Q2 |
But watched the sun go down and watched the gold | C |
Fade from the town and the withdrawing hills | A |
Their westward shapes athwart the dusky red | C |
Freeze into sapphire saw the arc of rose | A |
Rise ever higher in the violet east | C |
Above the frore front of the uprearing night | C |
Remorsefully soft and sweet Then I awoke | R2 |
As from a dream and from my shoulders shook | S2 |
The warning chill till then unfelt unfeared | C |
Archibald Lampman
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