Spring Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCCBAB DEFFEDE GDHHHDGD AIJJJKAI HBLELBBB BBMMBCB BNBBBNBN ABBBBAB COBBBODO DPCCCPCP DQEEEQBQ DRDSDRBR ABDDBAB BKBBKBK ABEEBBBMake me over mother April | A |
When the sap begins to stir | B |
When thy flowery hand delivers | C |
All the mountain prisoned rivers | C |
And thy great heart beats and quivers | C |
To revive the days that were | B |
Make me over mother April | A |
When the sap begins to stir | B |
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Take my dust and all my dreaming | D |
Count my heart beats one by one | E |
Send them where the winters perish | F |
Then some golden noon recherish | F |
And restore them in the sun | E |
Flower and scent and dust and dreaming | D |
With their heart beats every one | E |
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Set me in the urge and tide drift | G |
Of the streaming hosts a wing | D |
Breast of scarlet throat of yellow | H |
Raucous challenge wooings mellow | H |
Every migrant is my fellow | H |
Making northward with the spring | D |
Loose me in the urge and tide drift | G |
Of the streaming hosts a wing | D |
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Shrilling pipe or fluting whistle | A |
In the valleys come again | I |
Fife of frog and call of tree toad | J |
All my brothers five or three toed | J |
With their revel no more vetoed | J |
Making music in the rain | K |
Shrilling pipe or fluting whistle | A |
In the valleys come again | I |
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Make me of thy seed to morrow | H |
When the sap begins to stir | B |
Tawny light foot sleepy bruin | L |
Bright eyes in the orchard ruin | E |
Gnarl the good life goes askew in | L |
Whiskey jack or tanager | B |
Make me anything to morrow | B |
When the sap begins to stir | B |
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Make me even How do I know | B |
Like my friend the gargoyle there | B |
It may be the heart within him | M |
Swells that doltish hands should pin him | M |
Fixed forever in mid air | B |
Make me even sport for swallows | C |
Like the soaring gargoyle there | B |
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Give me the old clue to follow | B |
Through the labyrinth of night | N |
Clod of clay with heart of fire | B |
Things that burrow and aspire | B |
With the vanishing desire | B |
For the perishing delight | N |
Only the old clue to follow | B |
Through the labyrinth of night | N |
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Make me over mother April | A |
When the sap begins to stir | B |
Fashion me from swamp or meadow | B |
Garden plot or ferny shadow | B |
Hyacinth or humble burr | B |
Make me over mother April | A |
When the sap begins to stir | B |
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Let me hear the far low summons | C |
When the silver winds return | O |
Rills that run and streams that stammer | B |
Goldenwing with his loud hammer | B |
Icy brooks that brawl and clamor | B |
Where the Indian willows burn | O |
Let me hearken to the calling | D |
When the silver winds return | O |
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Till recurring and recurring | D |
Long since wandered and come back | P |
Like a whim of Grieg's or Gounod's | C |
This same self bird bud or Bluenose | C |
Some day I may capture Who knows | C |
Just the one last joy I lack | P |
Waking to the far new summons | C |
When the old spring winds come back | P |
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For I have no choice of being | D |
When the sap begins to climb | Q |
Strong insistence sweet intrusion | E |
Vasts and verges of illusion | E |
So I win to time's confusion | E |
The one perfect pearl of time | Q |
Joy and joy and joy forever | B |
Till the sap forgets to climb | Q |
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Make me over in the morning | D |
From the rag bag of the world | R |
Scraps of dream and duds of daring | D |
Home brought stuff from far sea faring | S |
Faded colors once so flaring | D |
Shreds of banners long since furled | R |
Hues of ash and glints of glory | B |
In the rag bag of the world | R |
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Let me taste the old immortal | A |
Indolence of life once more | B |
Not recalling nor foreseeing | D |
Let the great slow joys of being | D |
Well my heart through as of yore | B |
Let me taste the old immortal | A |
Indolence of life once more | B |
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Give me the old drink for rapture | B |
The delirium to drain | K |
All my fellows drank in plenty | B |
At the Three Score Inns and Twenty | B |
From the mountains to the main | K |
Give me the old drink for rapture | B |
The delirium to drain | K |
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Only make me over April | A |
When the sap begins to stir | B |
Make me man or make me woman | E |
Make me oaf or ape or human | E |
Cup of flower or cone of fir | B |
Make me anything but neuter | B |
When the sap begins to stir | B |
Bliss Carman (william)
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