Winter-store Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Subtly conscious all awakeA
Let us clear our eyes and breakA
Through the cloudy chrysalisB
See the wonder as it isC
Down a narrow alley blindD
Touch and vision heart and mindD
Turned sharply inward still we plodE
Till the calmly smiling godE
Leaves us and our spirits growF
More thin more acrid as we goF
Creeping by the sullen wallG
We forego the power to seeH
The threads that bind us to the AllG
God or the ImmensityE
Whereof on the eternal roadE
Man is but a passing modeE
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Too blind we are too little seeH
Of the magic pageantryH
Every minute every hourI
From the cloudflake to the flowerI
Forever old forever strangeJ
Issuing in perpetual changeJ
From the rainbow gates of TimeK
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But he who through this common airL
Surely knows the great and fairL
What is lovely what sublimeK
Becomes in an increasing spanM
One with earth and one with manM
One despite these mortal scarsN
With the planets and the starsN
And Nature from her holy placeO
Bending with unveiled faceO
Fills him in her divine employP
With her own majestic joyP
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Up the fielded slopes at mornQ
Where light wefts of shadow passR
Films upon the bending cornQ
I shall sweep the purple grassR
Sun crowned heights and mossy woodsS
And the outer solitudesS
Mountain valleys dim with pineT
Shall be home and haunt of mineT
I shall search in crannied hollowsS
Where the sunlight scarcely followsS
And the secret forest brookU
Murmurs and from nook to nookU
Forever downward curls and coolsS
Frothing in the bouldered poolsS
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Many a noon shall find me laidE
In the pungent balsam shadeE
Where sharp breezes spring and shiverI
On some deep rough coasted riverI
And the plangent waters comeV
Amber hued and streaked with foamW
Where beneath the sunburnt hillsS
All day long the crowded millsS
With remorseless champ and screamX
Overlord the sluicing streamX
And the rapids' iron roarY
Hammers at the forest's coreY
Where corded rafts creep slowly onZ
Glittering in the noonday sunA2
And the tawny river dogsS
Shepherding the branded logsS
Bind and heave with cadenced cryB2
Where the blackened tugs go byB2
Panting hard and straining slowF
Laboring at the weighty towF
Flat nosed barges all in trimC2
Creeping in long cumbrous lineT
Loaded to the water's brimC2
With the clean cool scented pineT
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Perhaps in some low meadow landE
Stretching wide on either handE
I shall see the belted beesS
Rocking with the tricksy breezeS
In the spired meadow sweetE
Or with eager trampling feetE
Burrowing in the boneset bloomsS
Treading out the dry perfumesS
Where sun hot hay fields newly mownT
Climb the hillside ruddy brownT
I shall see the haymakersS
While the noonday scarcely stirsS
Brown of neck and booted grayD2
Tossing up the rustling hayD2
While the hay racks bend and rockE2
As they take each scented cockE2
Jolting over dip and riseS
And the wavering butterfliesS
O'er the spaces brown and bareL
Light and wander here and thereL
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I shall stray by many a streamX
Where the half shut lilies gleamX
Napping out the sultry daysS
In the quiet secluded baysS
Where the tasseled rushes towerI
O'er the purple pickerel flowerI
And the floating dragon flyB2
Azure glint and crystal gleamX
Watches o'er the burnished streamX
With his eye of ebonyT
Where the bull frog lolls at restE
On his float of lily leavesS
That the swaying water weavesS
And distends his yellow breastE
Lowing out from shore to shoreY
With a hollow vibrant roarY
Where the softest wind that blowsS
As it lightly comes and goesS
O'er the jungled river meadsS
Stirs a whisper in the reedsS
And wakes the crowded bull rushesS
From their stately reveriesS
Flashing through their long leaved hordesS
Like a brandishing of swordsS
There too the frost like arrow flowersS
Tremble to the golden coreY
Children of enchanted hoursS
Whom the rustling river boreY
In the night's bewildered noonT
Woven of water and the moonT
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I shall hear the grasshoppersS
From the parched grass rehearseS
And with drowsy note prolongF2
Evermore the same thin songF2
I shall hear the crickets tellG2
Stories by the humming wellG2
And mark the locust with quaint eyesS
Caper in his cloak of grayD2
Like a jester in disguiseS
Rattling by the dusty wayD2
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I shall dream by upland fencesS
Where the season's wealth condensesS
Over many a weedy wreckH2
Wild uncared for desert placesS
That sovereign Beauty loves to deckH2
With her softest dearest gracesS
There the long year dreams in quietE
And the summer's strength runs riotE
Shall I not remember theseS
Deep in winter reveriesS
Berried brier and thistle bloomI2
And milkweed with its dense perfumeI2
Slender vervain towering upJ2
In a many branched cupJ2
Like a candlestick each spireK2
Kindled with a violet fireI
Matted creepers and wild cherriesS
Purple bunched elderberriesS
And on scanty plots of sodE
Groves of branchy goldenrodE
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What though autumn mornings nowT
Winterward with glittering browT
Stiffen in the silver grassS
And what though robins flock and passS
With subdued and sober callG
To the old year's funeralL2
Though October's crimson leavesS
Rustle at the gusty doorY
And the tempest round the eavesS
Alternate with pipe and roarY
I sit as erst unharmed secureM2
Conscious that my store is sureM2
Whatsoe'er the fenced fieldsS
Or the untilled forest yieldsS
Of unhurt remembrancesS
Or thoughts far glimpsed half followed theseS
I have reaped and laid awayD2
A treasure of unwinnowed grainT
To the garner packed and grayD2
Gathered without toil or strainT
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And when the darker days shall comeV
And the fields are white and dumbV
When our fires are half in vainT
And the crystal starlight weavesS
Mockeries of summer leavesS
Pictured on the icy paneT
When the high aurora gleamsS
Far above the Arctic streamsS
Like a line of shifting spearsS
And the broad pine circled meresS
Glimmering in that spectral lightE
Thunder through the northern nightE
Then within the bolted doorY
I shall con my summer storeY
Though the fences scarcely showF
Black above the drifted snowF
Though the icy sweeping windE
Whistle in the empty treeT
Safe within the sheltered mindE
I shall feed on memoryT
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Yet across the windy nightE
Comes upon its wings a cryB2
Fashioned forms and modes take flightE
And a vision sad and highB2
Of the laboring world down thereL
Where the lights burn red and warmN2
Pricks my soul with sudden stareL
Glowing through the veils of stormN2
In the city yonder sleepO2
Those who smile and those who weepO2
Those whose lips are set with careL
Those whose brows are smooth and fairL
Mourners whom the dawning lightE
Shall grapple with an old distressS
Lovers folded at midnightE
In their bridal happinessS
Pale watchers by beloved bedsS
Fallen a drowse with nodding headsS
Whom sleep captured by surpriseS
With the circles round their eyesS
Maidens with quiet taken breathP2
Dreaming of enchanted bowersS
Old men with the mask of deathP2
Little children soft as flowersS
Those who wake wild eyed and startE
In some madness of the heartE
Those whose lips and brows of stoneT
Evil thoughts have graven uponT
Shade by shade and line by lineT
Refashioning what was once divineT
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All these sleep and through the nightE
Comes a passion and a cryB2
With a blind sorrow and a mightE
I know not whence I know not whyB2
A something I cannot controlQ2
A nameless hunger of the soulQ2
It holds me fast In vain in vainT
I remember how of oldE
I saw the ruddy race of menT
Through the glittering world outrolledE
A gay smiling multitudeE
All immortal all divineT
Treading in a wreathed lineT
By a pathway through a woodE

Archibald Lampman



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