Solvitur Acris Hiemps Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGFG HGHG IGIG GJGJ KLKL MGMG GNGN IOIO| My Juggins see the pasture green | A |
| Obeying Nature's kindly law | B |
| Renews its mantle there has been | C |
| A thaw | B |
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| The frost bound earth is free at last | D |
| That lay 'neath Winter's sullen yoke | E |
| 'Till people felt it getting past | D |
| A joke | E |
| - | |
| Now forth again the Freshers fare | F |
| And get them tasty summer suits | G |
| Wherein they flaunt afield and scare | F |
| The brutes | G |
| - | |
| Again the stream suspects the keel | H |
| Again the shrieking captain drops | G |
| Upon his crew again the meal | H |
| Of chops | G |
| - | |
| Divides the too laborious day | I |
| Again the Student sighs o'er Mods | G |
| And prompts his enemies to lay | I |
| Long odds | G |
| - | |
| Again the shopman spreads his wiles | G |
| Again the organ pipes unbound | J |
| Distract the populace for miles | G |
| Around | J |
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| Then Juggins ere December's touch | K |
| Once more the wealth of Spring reclaim | L |
| Since each successive year is much | K |
| The same | L |
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| Since too the monarch on his throne | M |
| In purple lapped and frankincense | G |
| Who from his infancy has blown | M |
| Expense | G |
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| No less than he who barely gets | G |
| The boon of out of door relief | N |
| Must see desuetude come let's | G |
| Be brief | N |
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| At those resolves last New Year's Day | I |
| The easy gods indulgent wink | O |
| Then downward ho the shortest way | I |
| Is drink | O |
Arthur Thomas Quiller-couch
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