Winter-store Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEEFFGHGEEE HHIIJJK LLKMMNNOOPP QRQRSSTTSSUUSS EEIIVWSSXXYYZA2SSB2B 2FFC2TC2T EESSEESSTTSSD2D2E2E2 SSLL XXSSIIB2XXTESSEYYSSS SSSSSSYSYTT SSF2F2G2G2SD2SD2 SSH2SH2SEESSI2I2J2J2 K2ISSEE TTSSGL2SYSYM2M2SSSSD 2TD2T VVTSSTSSSSEEYYFFETET EB2EB2LN2LN2O2O2LLES ESSSSSP2SP2SEETTTT EB2EB2Q2Q2TETEETTESubtly conscious all awake | A |
Let us clear our eyes and break | A |
Through the cloudy chrysalis | B |
See the wonder as it is | C |
Down a narrow alley blind | D |
Touch and vision heart and mind | D |
Turned sharply inward still we plod | E |
Till the calmly smiling god | E |
Leaves us and our spirits grow | F |
More thin more acrid as we go | F |
Creeping by the sullen wall | G |
We forego the power to see | H |
The threads that bind us to the All | G |
God or the Immensity | E |
Whereof on the eternal road | E |
Man is but a passing mode | E |
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Too blind we are too little see | H |
Of the magic pageantry | H |
Every minute every hour | I |
From the cloudflake to the flower | I |
Forever old forever strange | J |
Issuing in perpetual change | J |
From the rainbow gates of Time | K |
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But he who through this common air | L |
Surely knows the great and fair | L |
What is lovely what sublime | K |
Becomes in an increasing span | M |
One with earth and one with man | M |
One despite these mortal scars | N |
With the planets and the stars | N |
And Nature from her holy place | O |
Bending with unveiled face | O |
Fills him in her divine employ | P |
With her own majestic joy | P |
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Up the fielded slopes at morn | Q |
Where light wefts of shadow pass | R |
Films upon the bending corn | Q |
I shall sweep the purple grass | R |
Sun crowned heights and mossy woods | S |
And the outer solitudes | S |
Mountain valleys dim with pine | T |
Shall be home and haunt of mine | T |
I shall search in crannied hollows | S |
Where the sunlight scarcely follows | S |
And the secret forest brook | U |
Murmurs and from nook to nook | U |
Forever downward curls and cools | S |
Frothing in the bouldered pools | S |
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Many a noon shall find me laid | E |
In the pungent balsam shade | E |
Where sharp breezes spring and shiver | I |
On some deep rough coasted river | I |
And the plangent waters come | V |
Amber hued and streaked with foam | W |
Where beneath the sunburnt hills | S |
All day long the crowded mills | S |
With remorseless champ and scream | X |
Overlord the sluicing stream | X |
And the rapids' iron roar | Y |
Hammers at the forest's core | Y |
Where corded rafts creep slowly on | Z |
Glittering in the noonday sun | A2 |
And the tawny river dogs | S |
Shepherding the branded logs | S |
Bind and heave with cadenced cry | B2 |
Where the blackened tugs go by | B2 |
Panting hard and straining slow | F |
Laboring at the weighty tow | F |
Flat nosed barges all in trim | C2 |
Creeping in long cumbrous line | T |
Loaded to the water's brim | C2 |
With the clean cool scented pine | T |
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Perhaps in some low meadow land | E |
Stretching wide on either hand | E |
I shall see the belted bees | S |
Rocking with the tricksy breeze | S |
In the spired meadow sweet | E |
Or with eager trampling feet | E |
Burrowing in the boneset blooms | S |
Treading out the dry perfumes | S |
Where sun hot hay fields newly mown | T |
Climb the hillside ruddy brown | T |
I shall see the haymakers | S |
While the noonday scarcely stirs | S |
Brown of neck and booted gray | D2 |
Tossing up the rustling hay | D2 |
While the hay racks bend and rock | E2 |
As they take each scented cock | E2 |
Jolting over dip and rise | S |
And the wavering butterflies | S |
O'er the spaces brown and bare | L |
Light and wander here and there | L |
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I shall stray by many a stream | X |
Where the half shut lilies gleam | X |
Napping out the sultry days | S |
In the quiet secluded bays | S |
Where the tasseled rushes tower | I |
O'er the purple pickerel flower | I |
And the floating dragon fly | B2 |
Azure glint and crystal gleam | X |
Watches o'er the burnished stream | X |
With his eye of ebony | T |
Where the bull frog lolls at rest | E |
On his float of lily leaves | S |
That the swaying water weaves | S |
And distends his yellow breast | E |
Lowing out from shore to shore | Y |
With a hollow vibrant roar | Y |
Where the softest wind that blows | S |
As it lightly comes and goes | S |
O'er the jungled river meads | S |
Stirs a whisper in the reeds | S |
And wakes the crowded bull rushes | S |
From their stately reveries | S |
Flashing through their long leaved hordes | S |
Like a brandishing of swords | S |
There too the frost like arrow flowers | S |
Tremble to the golden core | Y |
Children of enchanted hours | S |
Whom the rustling river bore | Y |
In the night's bewildered noon | T |
Woven of water and the moon | T |
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I shall hear the grasshoppers | S |
From the parched grass rehearse | S |
And with drowsy note prolong | F2 |
Evermore the same thin song | F2 |
I shall hear the crickets tell | G2 |
Stories by the humming well | G2 |
And mark the locust with quaint eyes | S |
Caper in his cloak of gray | D2 |
Like a jester in disguise | S |
Rattling by the dusty way | D2 |
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I shall dream by upland fences | S |
Where the season's wealth condenses | S |
Over many a weedy wreck | H2 |
Wild uncared for desert places | S |
That sovereign Beauty loves to deck | H2 |
With her softest dearest graces | S |
There the long year dreams in quiet | E |
And the summer's strength runs riot | E |
Shall I not remember these | S |
Deep in winter reveries | S |
Berried brier and thistle bloom | I2 |
And milkweed with its dense perfume | I2 |
Slender vervain towering up | J2 |
In a many branched cup | J2 |
Like a candlestick each spire | K2 |
Kindled with a violet fire | I |
Matted creepers and wild cherries | S |
Purple bunched elderberries | S |
And on scanty plots of sod | E |
Groves of branchy goldenrod | E |
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What though autumn mornings now | T |
Winterward with glittering brow | T |
Stiffen in the silver grass | S |
And what though robins flock and pass | S |
With subdued and sober call | G |
To the old year's funeral | L2 |
Though October's crimson leaves | S |
Rustle at the gusty door | Y |
And the tempest round the eaves | S |
Alternate with pipe and roar | Y |
I sit as erst unharmed secure | M2 |
Conscious that my store is sure | M2 |
Whatsoe'er the fenced fields | S |
Or the untilled forest yields | S |
Of unhurt remembrances | S |
Or thoughts far glimpsed half followed these | S |
I have reaped and laid away | D2 |
A treasure of unwinnowed grain | T |
To the garner packed and gray | D2 |
Gathered without toil or strain | T |
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And when the darker days shall come | V |
And the fields are white and dumb | V |
When our fires are half in vain | T |
And the crystal starlight weaves | S |
Mockeries of summer leaves | S |
Pictured on the icy pane | T |
When the high aurora gleams | S |
Far above the Arctic streams | S |
Like a line of shifting spears | S |
And the broad pine circled meres | S |
Glimmering in that spectral light | E |
Thunder through the northern night | E |
Then within the bolted door | Y |
I shall con my summer store | Y |
Though the fences scarcely show | F |
Black above the drifted snow | F |
Though the icy sweeping wind | E |
Whistle in the empty tree | T |
Safe within the sheltered mind | E |
I shall feed on memory | T |
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Yet across the windy night | E |
Comes upon its wings a cry | B2 |
Fashioned forms and modes take flight | E |
And a vision sad and high | B2 |
Of the laboring world down there | L |
Where the lights burn red and warm | N2 |
Pricks my soul with sudden stare | L |
Glowing through the veils of storm | N2 |
In the city yonder sleep | O2 |
Those who smile and those who weep | O2 |
Those whose lips are set with care | L |
Those whose brows are smooth and fair | L |
Mourners whom the dawning light | E |
Shall grapple with an old distress | S |
Lovers folded at midnight | E |
In their bridal happiness | S |
Pale watchers by beloved beds | S |
Fallen a drowse with nodding heads | S |
Whom sleep captured by surprise | S |
With the circles round their eyes | S |
Maidens with quiet taken breath | P2 |
Dreaming of enchanted bowers | S |
Old men with the mask of death | P2 |
Little children soft as flowers | S |
Those who wake wild eyed and start | E |
In some madness of the heart | E |
Those whose lips and brows of stone | T |
Evil thoughts have graven upon | T |
Shade by shade and line by line | T |
Refashioning what was once divine | T |
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All these sleep and through the night | E |
Comes a passion and a cry | B2 |
With a blind sorrow and a might | E |
I know not whence I know not why | B2 |
A something I cannot control | Q2 |
A nameless hunger of the soul | Q2 |
It holds me fast In vain in vain | T |
I remember how of old | E |
I saw the ruddy race of men | T |
Through the glittering world outrolled | E |
A gay smiling multitude | E |
All immortal all divine | T |
Treading in a wreathed line | T |
By a pathway through a wood | E |
Archibald Lampman
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