The First Spring Day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABABCCA DDEDEFFD GGHGHIIG JJKJKDDJ| THE sunshine died long ago | A |
| Stifled out long ago | A |
| And the waste of the world was grey | B |
| And night was the best to know | A |
| For night was to doze and forget the day | B |
| To be warm and forgetting and still | C |
| And need not the sun and know not the chill | C |
| But oh for the day that was darkened so | A |
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| Why gaze on a barren heaven | D |
| Void and unchanging heaven | D |
| On a barren earth in the grime | E |
| And not a poor blossom given | D |
| No thing that was thinking of sunshine time | E |
| For a promise a praise of the past | F |
| And so one forgot the sunshine at last | F |
| And sleep could avail but what to have striven | D |
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| The sunshine wakes once anew | G |
| Wakes and is born anew | G |
| And the Age of the earth grows young | H |
| And heaven has its youth for hue | G |
| And hope is the tune of the spring bird's tongue | H |
| And the leaves in their prisons all hark | I |
| And blossoms will know there is end of the dark | I |
| One hour of the sun and the spring time grew | G |
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| The sunshine new on the earth | J |
| Heaven to brighten the earth | J |
| And the deathful dimness gone by | K |
| The barren and winter dearth | J |
| And to day is the best till the next is nigh | K |
| And to night is to morrow begun | D |
| To morrow when blossoms remember the sun | D |
| Dead hopes are ye born with the blossoms birth | J |
Augusta Davies Webster
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