Winter Rain Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FGFG HIJI KLKL MNMO PDQR SGSG| Every valley drinks | A |
| Every dell and hollow | B |
| Where the kind rain sinks and sinks | A |
| Green of Spring will follow | B |
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| Yet a lapse of weeks | C |
| Buds will burst their edges | D |
| Strip their wool coats glue coats streaks | C |
| In the woods and hedges | E |
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| Weave a bower of love | F |
| For birds to meet each other | G |
| Weave a canopy above | F |
| Nest and egg and mother | G |
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| But for fattening rain | H |
| We should have no flowers | I |
| Never a bud or leaf again | J |
| But for soaking showers | I |
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| Never a mated bird | K |
| In the rocking tree tops | L |
| Never indeed a flock or herd | K |
| To graze upon the lea crops | L |
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| Lambs so woolly white | M |
| Sheep the sun bright leas on | N |
| They could have no grass to bite | M |
| But for rain in season | O |
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| We should find no moss | P |
| In the shadiest places | D |
| Find no waving meadow grass | Q |
| Pied with broad eyed daisies | R |
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| But miles of barren sand | S |
| With never a son or daughter | G |
| Not a lily on the land | S |
| Or lily on the water | G |
Christina Rossetti
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