Winter Stores. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGHG IEIE JKJK LMLM KNKO PQPG RPRP SBSB EBEB IPIP PTPT| We take from life one little share | A |
| And say that this shall be | B |
| A space redeemed from toil and care | A |
| From tears and sadness free | B |
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| And haply Death unstrings his bow | C |
| And Sorrow stands apart | D |
| And for a little while we know | E |
| The sunshine of the heart | D |
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| Existence seems a summer eve | F |
| Warm soft and full of peace | G |
| Our free unfettered feelings give | H |
| The soul its full release | G |
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| A moment then it takes the power | I |
| To call up thoughts that throw | E |
| Around that charmed and hallowed hour | I |
| This life's divinest glow | E |
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| But Time though viewlessly it flies | J |
| And slowly will not stay | K |
| Alike through clear and clouded skies | J |
| It cleaves its silent way | K |
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| Alike the bitter cup of grief | L |
| Alike the draught of bliss | M |
| Its progress leaves but moment brief | L |
| For baffled lips to kiss | M |
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| The sparkling draught is dried away | K |
| The hour of rest is gone | N |
| And urgent voices round us say | K |
| Ho lingerer hasten on | O |
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| And has the soul then only gained | P |
| From this brief time of ease | Q |
| A moment's rest when overstrained | P |
| One hurried glimpse of peace | G |
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| No while the sun shone kindly o'er us | R |
| And flowers bloomed round our feet | P |
| While many a bud of joy before us | R |
| Unclosed its petals sweet | P |
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| An unseen work within was plying | S |
| Like honey seeking bee | B |
| From flower to flower unwearied flying | S |
| Laboured one faculty | B |
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| Thoughtful for Winter's future sorrow | E |
| Its gloom and scarcity | B |
| Prescient to day of want to morrow | E |
| Toiled quiet Memory | B |
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| 'Tis she that from each transient pleasure | I |
| Extracts a lasting good | P |
| 'Tis she that finds in summer treasure | I |
| To serve for winter's food | P |
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| And when Youth's summer day is vanished | P |
| And Age brings Winter's stress | T |
| Her stores with hoarded sweets replenished | P |
| Life's evening hours will bless | T |
Charlotte Bronte
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