But These Things Also Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGF HIJK LMNO| But these things also are Spring's | A |
| On banks by the roadside the grass | B |
| Long dead that is greyer now | C |
| Than all the Winter it was | D |
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| The shell of a little snail bleached | E |
| In the grass chip of flint and mite | F |
| Of chalk and the small birds' dung | G |
| In splashes of purest white | F |
| - | |
| All the white things a man mistakes | H |
| For earliest violets | I |
| Who seeks through Winter's ruins | J |
| Something to pay Winter's debts | K |
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| While the North blows and starling flocks | L |
| By chattering on and on | M |
| Keep their spirits up in the mist | N |
| And Spring's here Winter's not gone | O |
Edward Thomas
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