The Year Outgrows The Spring Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL| The year outgrows the spring it thought so sweet | A |
| And clasps the summer with a new delight | B |
| Yet wearied leaves her languors and her heat | A |
| When cool browed autumn dawns upon his sight | B |
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| The tree outgrows the bud's suggestive grace | C |
| And feels new pride in blossoms fully blown | D |
| But even this to deeper joy gives place | C |
| When bending boughs 'neath blushing burdens groan | D |
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| Life's rarest moments are derived from change | E |
| The heart outgrows old happiness old grief | F |
| And suns itself in feelings new and strange | E |
| The most enduring pleasure is but brief | F |
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| Our tastes our needs are never twice the same | G |
| Nothing contents us long however dear | H |
| The spirit in us like the grosser frame | G |
| Outgrows the garments which it wore last year | H |
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| Change is the watchword of Progression When | I |
| We tire of well worn ways we seek for new | J |
| This restless craving in the souls of men | I |
| Spurs them to climb and seek the mountain view | J |
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| So let who will erect an altar shrine | K |
| To meek browed Constancy and sing her praise | L |
| Unto enlivening Change I shall build mine | K |
| Who lends new zest and interest to my days | L |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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