March Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEFGHIJKLDMNOEPQGRST BUVW PXBBY| Now I know that Spring will come again | A |
| Perhaps to morrow however late I've patience | B |
| After this night following on such a day | C |
| - | |
| While still my temples ached from the cold burning | D |
| Of hail and wind and still the primroses | E |
| Torn by the hail were covered up in it | F |
| The sun filled earth and heaven with a great light | G |
| And a tenderness almost warmth where the hail dripped | H |
| As if the mighty sun wept tears of joy | I |
| But 'twas too late for warmth The sunset piled | J |
| Mountains on mountains of snow and ice in the west | K |
| Somewhere among their folds the wind was lost | L |
| And yet 'twas cold and though I knew that Spring | D |
| Would come again I knew it had not come | M |
| That it was lost too in those mountains chill | N |
| What did the thrushes know Rain snow sleet hail | O |
| Had kept them quiet as the primroses | E |
| They had but an hour to sing On boughs they sang | P |
| On gates on ground they sang while they changed perches | Q |
| And while they fought if they remembered to fight | G |
| So earnest were they to pack into that hour | R |
| Their unwilling hoard of song before the moon | S |
| Grew brighter than the clouds Then 'twas no time | T |
| For singing merely So they could keep off silence | B |
| And night they cared not what they sang or screamed | U |
| Whether 'twas hoarse or sweet or fierce or soft | V |
| And to me all was sweet they could do no wrong | W |
| - | |
| Something they knew I also while they sang | P |
| And after Not till night had half its stars | X |
| And never a cloud was I aware of silence | B |
| Stained with all that hour's songs a silence | B |
| Saying that Spring returns perhaps to morrow | Y |
Edward Thomas
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
<< Thaw Poem
To-night Poem>>
Write your comment about March poem by Edward Thomas
Best Poems of Edward Thomas