Winter Sleep Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EFGHIIJJKK LLMMLLNN OOPP| When against earth a wooden heel | A |
| Clicks as loud as stone on steel | A |
| When stone turns flour instead of flakes | B |
| And frost bakes clay as fire bakes | B |
| When the hard bitten fields at last | C |
| Crack like iron flawed in the cast | C |
| When the world is wicked and cross and old | D |
| I long to be quit of the cruel cold | D |
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| Little birds like bubbles of glass | E |
| Fly to other Americas | F |
| Birds as bright as sparkles of wine | G |
| Fly in the nite to the Argentine | H |
| Birds of azure and flame birds go | I |
| To the tropical Gulf of Mexico | I |
| They chase the sun they follow the heat | J |
| It is sweet in their bones O sweet sweet sweet | J |
| It's not with them that I'd love to be | K |
| But under the roots of the balsam tree | K |
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| Just as the spiniest chestnut burr | L |
| Is lined within with the finest fur | L |
| So the stoney walled snow roofed house | M |
| Of every squirrel and mole and mouse | M |
| Is lined with thistledown sea gull's feather | L |
| Velvet mullein leaf heaped together | L |
| With balsam and juniper dry and curled | N |
| Sweeter than anything else in the world | N |
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| O what a warm and darksome nest | O |
| Where the wildest things are hidden to rest | O |
| It's there that I'd love to lie and sleep | P |
| Soft soft soft and deep deep deep | P |
Elinor Morton Wylie
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