A Winter Walk Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EFFE GHIG JKKJ LMML INNI OPPQ REER| WE never had believed I wis | A |
| At primrose time when west winds stole | B |
| Like thoughts of youth across the soul | B |
| In such an altered time as this | A |
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| When if one little flower did peep | C |
| Up through the brown and sullen grass | D |
| We should just look on it and pass | D |
| As if we saw it in our sleep | C |
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| Feeling as sure as that this ray | E |
| Which cottage children call the sun | F |
| Colors the pale clouds one by one | F |
| Our touch would make it drop to clay | E |
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| We never could have looked in prime | G |
| Of April or when July trees | H |
| Shook full leaved in the evening bree | I |
| Upon the face of this pale time | G |
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| Still soft familiar shining bleak | J |
| On naked branches sodden ground | K |
| Yet shining as if one had found | K |
| A smile upon a dead friend's cheek | J |
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| Or old friend lost for years had strange | L |
| In altered mien come sudden back | M |
| Confronting us with our great lack | M |
| Till loss seemed far less sad than change | L |
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| Yet though alas Hope did not see | I |
| This winter skeleton through full leaves | N |
| Out of all bareness Faith perceives | N |
| Possible life in field and tree | I |
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| In bough and trunk the sap will move | O |
| And the mould break o'er springing flowers | P |
| Nature revives with all her powers | P |
| But only nature never love | Q |
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| So listlessly with link d hands | R |
| Both Faith and Hope glide soft away | E |
| While in long shadows cool and gray | E |
| The sun sets o'er the barren lands | R |
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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