Spring Song Ii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGH IIJJ KKKKKK LLMMNNOOPPQRDDSSEE DDTTKK UUV PPWWXXKKKKKKTHE spring is here and the long nights grow | A |
Less bitterly cold than awhile ago | A |
Our rags serve their purpose now and keep | B |
Warmth enough in us to let us sleep | B |
The rain that trickles down our walls | C |
No longer seems to freeze as it falls | C |
There was dust not mud on our feet to day | D |
There's some green in a flower pot over the way | D |
The sky strip over the court's changed hue | E |
From dull yellow grey to clear grey blue | E |
Through our broken windows no more the storm | F |
Laughs and shrieks as we try to keep warm | F |
But through dusty panes the long sunbeams peer | G |
For the spring is here | H |
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Small joy the greenness and grace of spring | I |
To grey hard lives like our own can bring | I |
A drowning man cares little to think | J |
Of the lights on the waves where he soon must sink | J |
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The greenest garments the spring can wear | K |
Are black already with our despair | K |
Earth will be one with us soon shall we care | K |
If snow or sunshine be over us there | K |
Or if wintry the world be we found so drear | K |
Or if spring be here | K |
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In the western half of our Christian town | L |
The Winter only pretends to frown | L |
And when his undreaded rage is done | M |
The 'London season' they say is begun | M |
With wine feast revelling laugh and song | N |
The hours rose garlanded dance along | N |
The whirl of wickedness wilder grows | O |
In this western camp of our bitter foes | O |
They fight with each other the victors take | P |
The largest share of the wealth we make | P |
They spend on their horses their women their wives | Q |
The money wrung from our blasted lives | R |
It is theirs to enjoy it is ours to pay | D |
Do they never dream of a reckoning day | D |
When the lives they have wrecked shall be counted up | S |
And measured the blood that has brightened their cup | S |
When we who have worked shall take payment due | E |
And they for their work shall have payment too | E |
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Do they dream of that coming hour Not they | D |
Their feet flit fast down the smooth steep way | D |
They see not the waiting snakes that hide | T |
In the hothouse flowers at their life path's side | T |
They know no justice no pity no fear | K |
But the spring is here | K |
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Yes here In the hope we had almost lost | U |
That has sprung to bud after long years' frost | U |
In this fire in our veins that cries 'Give youth | V |
Love manhood life for the Right and the Truth ' | - |
In our steady purpose for Freedom's sake | P |
Through custom privilege 'fate ' to break | P |
In the brains of the thinkers the arms of the men | W |
Who will strike and strike and still strike again | W |
Till they cut our way to the land of flowers | X |
And the summer of freedom at last is ours | X |
In these is the spring The winter was sore | K |
It is over and done and will come no more | K |
The fruit will grow with the changing year | K |
Though only the blossoms now appear | K |
For the sake of the fruit the blossoms are dear | K |
And the spring is here the spring is here | K |
Edith Nesbit
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