Spring Song Ii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGH IIJJ KKKKKK LLMMNNOOPPQRDDSSEE DDTTKK UUV PPWWXXKKKKKK

THE spring is here and the long nights growA
Less bitterly cold than awhile agoA
Our rags serve their purpose now and keepB
Warmth enough in us to let us sleepB
The rain that trickles down our wallsC
No longer seems to freeze as it fallsC
There was dust not mud on our feet to dayD
There's some green in a flower pot over the wayD
The sky strip over the court's changed hueE
From dull yellow grey to clear grey blueE
Through our broken windows no more the stormF
Laughs and shrieks as we try to keep warmF
But through dusty panes the long sunbeams peerG
For the spring is hereH
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Small joy the greenness and grace of springI
To grey hard lives like our own can bringI
A drowning man cares little to thinkJ
Of the lights on the waves where he soon must sinkJ
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The greenest garments the spring can wearK
Are black already with our despairK
Earth will be one with us soon shall we careK
If snow or sunshine be over us thereK
Or if wintry the world be we found so drearK
Or if spring be hereK
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In the western half of our Christian townL
The Winter only pretends to frownL
And when his undreaded rage is doneM
The 'London season' they say is begunM
With wine feast revelling laugh and songN
The hours rose garlanded dance alongN
The whirl of wickedness wilder growsO
In this western camp of our bitter foesO
They fight with each other the victors takeP
The largest share of the wealth we makeP
They spend on their horses their women their wivesQ
The money wrung from our blasted livesR
It is theirs to enjoy it is ours to payD
Do they never dream of a reckoning dayD
When the lives they have wrecked shall be counted upS
And measured the blood that has brightened their cupS
When we who have worked shall take payment dueE
And they for their work shall have payment tooE
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Do they dream of that coming hour Not theyD
Their feet flit fast down the smooth steep wayD
They see not the waiting snakes that hideT
In the hothouse flowers at their life path's sideT
They know no justice no pity no fearK
But the spring is hereK
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Yes here In the hope we had almost lostU
That has sprung to bud after long years' frostU
In this fire in our veins that cries 'Give youthV
Love manhood life for the Right and the Truth '-
In our steady purpose for Freedom's sakeP
Through custom privilege 'fate ' to breakP
In the brains of the thinkers the arms of the menW
Who will strike and strike and still strike againW
Till they cut our way to the land of flowersX
And the summer of freedom at last is oursX
In these is the spring The winter was soreK
It is over and done and will come no moreK
The fruit will grow with the changing yearK
Though only the blossoms now appearK
For the sake of the fruit the blossoms are dearK
And the spring is here the spring is hereK

Edith Nesbit



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