A January Day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ BKBK| King Winter sleeps His daughter Spring | A |
| His sceptre steals away | B |
| And laughing bids fair Nature bring | A |
| For once a perfect day | B |
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| Bright glows the sun in azure skies | C |
| And balmy blows the breeze | D |
| On gayer wing the sparrow flies | C |
| And softly sway the trees | D |
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| The seasons run like some great stream | E |
| That to the ocean flows | F |
| The waves that here in sunshine gleam | E |
| Bound there in mountain snows | F |
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| And as where darkling waters steal | G |
| Drear walls of rock between | H |
| Yet in their depths a gem reveal | G |
| That glows with sunny sheen | H |
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| So in this blustering month that bears | I |
| The banner of the year | J |
| Such days as this with balmy airs | I |
| Amid the storms appear | J |
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| It is but meet that thy birthday | B |
| Should open bright and warm | K |
| And into darkness fade away | B |
| Without a cloud or storm | K |
Arthur Weir
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