What's In A Name? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACCDEED FFGGHIIH JKJKDDD FDFFLDDFLDMNMOMPQNP| Why has Spring one syllable less | A |
| Than any its fellow season | B |
| There may be some other reason | B |
| And I'm merely making a guess | A |
| But surely it hoards such wealth | C |
| Of happiness hope and health | C |
| Sunshine and musical sound | D |
| It may spare a foot from its name | E |
| Yet all the same | E |
| Superabound | D |
| - | |
| Soft named Summer | F |
| Most welcome comer | F |
| Brings almost everything | G |
| Over which we dream or sing | G |
| Or sigh | H |
| But then Summer wends its way | I |
| To morrow to day | I |
| Good bye | H |
| - | |
| Autumn the slow name lingers | J |
| While we likewise flag | K |
| It silences many singers | J |
| Its slow days drag | K |
| Yet hasten at speed | D |
| To leave us in chilly need | D |
| For Winter to strip indeed | D |
| - | |
| In all lack Winter | F |
| Dull of sense and of sound | D |
| We huddle and shiver | F |
| Beside our splinter | F |
| Of crackling pine | L |
| Snow in sky and snow on ground | D |
| Winter and cold | D |
| Can't last for ever | F |
| To day to morrow the sun will shine | L |
| When we are old | D |
| But some still are young | M |
| Singing the song | N |
| Which others have sung | M |
| Ringing the bells | O |
| Which others have rung | M |
| Even so | P |
| We ourselves who else | Q |
| We ourselves long | N |
| Long ago | P |
Christina Rossetti
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