The Awakening Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH IIJJEEKK EELLMMNN| I love the tropics where sun and rain | A |
| Go forth together a joyous train | A |
| To hold up the green gay side of the world | B |
| And to keep earth's banners of bloom unfurled | B |
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| I love the scents that are hidden there | C |
| By housekeeper Time in her chests of air | C |
| Strange and subtle and all a rife | D |
| With vague lost dreams of a bygone life | D |
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| They steal upon you by night and day | E |
| But never a whiff can you take away | E |
| And never a song of a tropic bird | F |
| Outside of its palm decked land is heard | F |
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| And nowhere else can you know the sweet | G |
| Soft 'joy in nothing ' that comes with the heat | G |
| Of tropic regions And yet and yet | H |
| If in evergreen worlds my way were set | H |
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| I would span the waters of widest seas | I |
| To see the wonder of waking trees | I |
| To feel the shock of sudden delight | J |
| That comes when the orchard has changed in a night | J |
| From the winter nun to the bride of May | E |
| And the harp of Spring is attuned to play | E |
| The wedding march and the sun is priest | K |
| And the world is bidden to join the feast | K |
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| Oh never is felt in a tropic clime | E |
| Where the singing of birds is a ceaseless chime | E |
| That leap o' the blood and the rapture thrill | L |
| That comes to us here with the first bird's trill | L |
| And only the eye that has looked on snows | M |
| Can see the beauty that lies in a rose | M |
| The lure of the tropics I understand | N |
| But ho for the Spring in my native land | N |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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