To A Tulip-bulb Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBBCCCCDDEECC FFGGGCCCCHHIIJJ| SLEEP first | A |
| And let the storm and winter do their worst | A |
| Let all the garden lie | B |
| Bare to the angry sky | B |
| The shed leaves shiver and die | B |
| Above your bed | C |
| Let the white coverlet | C |
| Of sunlit snow be set | C |
| Over your sleeping head | C |
| While in the earth you sleep | D |
| Where dreams are dear and deep | D |
| And heed nor wind nor snow | E |
| Nor how the dark moons go | E |
| In this sad upper world where Winter's hand | C |
| Has bound with chains of ice the weary land | C |
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| Then wake | F |
| To see the whole world lovely for Spring's sake | F |
| The garden fresh and fair | G |
| With green things everywhere | G |
| And winter's want and care | G |
| Banished and fled | C |
| Primrose and violet | C |
| In every border set | C |
| With rain and sunshine fed | C |
| Then bless the fairy song | H |
| That cradled you so long | H |
| And bless the fairy kiss | I |
| That wakened you to this | I |
| A world where Winter's dead and Spring doth reign | J |
| And lovers whisper in the budding lane | J |
Edith Nesbit
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