Snowed Under Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFAGAG HIJIKFKF LCLCABABAB| Of a thousand things that the Year snowed under | A |
| The busy Old Year who has gone away | B |
| How many will rise in the Spring I wonder | A |
| Brought to life by the sun of May | B |
| Will the rose tree branches so wholly hidden | C |
| That never a rose tree seems to be | D |
| At the sweet Spring's call come forth unbidden | C |
| And bud in beauty and bloom for me | D |
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| Will the fair green Earth whose throbbing bosom | E |
| Is hid like a maid's in her gown at night | F |
| Wake out of her sleep and with blade and blossom | E |
| Gem her garments to please my sight | F |
| Over the knoll in the valley yonder | A |
| The loveliest buttercups bloomed and grew | G |
| When the snow has gone that drifted them under | A |
| Will they shoot up sunward and bloom anew | G |
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| When wild winds blew and a sleet storm pelted | H |
| I lost a jewel of priceless worth | I |
| If I walk that way when snows have melted | J |
| Will the gem gleam up from the bare brown Earth | I |
| I laid a love that was dead or dying | K |
| For the year to bury and hide from sight | F |
| But out of a trance will it waken crying | K |
| And push to my heart like a leaf to the light | F |
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| Under the snow lie things so cherished | L |
| Hopes ambitions and dreams of men | C |
| Faces that vanished and trusts that perished | L |
| Never to sparkle and glow again | C |
| The Old Year greedily grasped his plunder | A |
| And covered it over and hurried away | B |
| Of the thousand things that he did I wonder | A |
| How many will rise at the call of May | B |
| O wise Young Year with your hands held under | A |
| Your mantle of ermine tell me pray | B |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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