Spring Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCCCBAB DEFFEDE GDHHHDGD AIJJJKAI HBLELBBB BBMMBCB BNBBBNBN ABBBBAB COBBBODO DPCCCPCP DQEEEQBQ DRDSDRBR ABDDBAB BKBBKBK ABEEBBB

Make me over mother AprilA
When the sap begins to stirB
When thy flowery hand deliversC
All the mountain prisoned riversC
And thy great heart beats and quiversC
To revive the days that wereB
Make me over mother AprilA
When the sap begins to stirB
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Take my dust and all my dreamingD
Count my heart beats one by oneE
Send them where the winters perishF
Then some golden noon recherishF
And restore them in the sunE
Flower and scent and dust and dreamingD
With their heart beats every oneE
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Set me in the urge and tide driftG
Of the streaming hosts a wingD
Breast of scarlet throat of yellowH
Raucous challenge wooings mellowH
Every migrant is my fellowH
Making northward with the springD
Loose me in the urge and tide driftG
Of the streaming hosts a wingD
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Shrilling pipe or fluting whistleA
In the valleys come againI
Fife of frog and call of tree toadJ
All my brothers five or three toedJ
With their revel no more vetoedJ
Making music in the rainK
Shrilling pipe or fluting whistleA
In the valleys come againI
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Make me of thy seed to morrowH
When the sap begins to stirB
Tawny light foot sleepy bruinL
Bright eyes in the orchard ruinE
Gnarl the good life goes askew inL
Whiskey jack or tanagerB
Make me anything to morrowB
When the sap begins to stirB
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Make me even How do I knowB
Like my friend the gargoyle thereB
It may be the heart within himM
Swells that doltish hands should pin himM
Fixed forever in mid airB
Make me even sport for swallowsC
Like the soaring gargoyle thereB
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Give me the old clue to followB
Through the labyrinth of nightN
Clod of clay with heart of fireB
Things that burrow and aspireB
With the vanishing desireB
For the perishing delightN
Only the old clue to followB
Through the labyrinth of nightN
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Make me over mother AprilA
When the sap begins to stirB
Fashion me from swamp or meadowB
Garden plot or ferny shadowB
Hyacinth or humble burrB
Make me over mother AprilA
When the sap begins to stirB
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Let me hear the far low summonsC
When the silver winds returnO
Rills that run and streams that stammerB
Goldenwing with his loud hammerB
Icy brooks that brawl and clamorB
Where the Indian willows burnO
Let me hearken to the callingD
When the silver winds returnO
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Till recurring and recurringD
Long since wandered and come backP
Like a whim of Grieg's or Gounod'sC
This same self bird bud or BluenoseC
Some day I may capture Who knowsC
Just the one last joy I lackP
Waking to the far new summonsC
When the old spring winds come backP
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For I have no choice of beingD
When the sap begins to climbQ
Strong insistence sweet intrusionE
Vasts and verges of illusionE
So I win to time's confusionE
The one perfect pearl of timeQ
Joy and joy and joy foreverB
Till the sap forgets to climbQ
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Make me over in the morningD
From the rag bag of the worldR
Scraps of dream and duds of daringD
Home brought stuff from far sea faringS
Faded colors once so flaringD
Shreds of banners long since furledR
Hues of ash and glints of gloryB
In the rag bag of the worldR
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Let me taste the old immortalA
Indolence of life once moreB
Not recalling nor foreseeingD
Let the great slow joys of beingD
Well my heart through as of yoreB
Let me taste the old immortalA
Indolence of life once moreB
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Give me the old drink for raptureB
The delirium to drainK
All my fellows drank in plentyB
At the Three Score Inns and TwentyB
From the mountains to the mainK
Give me the old drink for raptureB
The delirium to drainK
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Only make me over AprilA
When the sap begins to stirB
Make me man or make me womanE
Make me oaf or ape or humanE
Cup of flower or cone of firB
Make me anything but neuterB
When the sap begins to stirB

Bliss Carman (william)



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