A Spring Poem From Bion Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCDEDEBB AFFDDEGEGHH IIJJIEIEKK| One asketh | A |
| Tell me Myrson tell me true | B |
| What's the season pleaseth you | B |
| Is it summer suits you best | C |
| When from harvest toil we rest | C |
| Is it autumn with its glory | D |
| Of all surfeited desires | E |
| Is it winter when with story | D |
| And with song we hug our fires | E |
| Or is spring most fair to you | B |
| Come good Myrson tell me true | B |
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| Another answereth | A |
| What the gods in wisdom send | F |
| We should question not my friend | F |
| Yet since you entreat of me | D |
| I will answer reverently | D |
| Me the summertime displeases | E |
| For its sun is scorching hot | G |
| Autumn brings such dire diseases | E |
| That perforce I like it not | G |
| As for biting winter oh | H |
| How I hate its ice and snow | H |
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| But thrice welcome kindly spring | I |
| With the myriad gifts you bring | I |
| Not too hot nor yet too cold | J |
| Graciously your charms unfold | J |
| Oh your days are like the dreaming | I |
| Of those nights which love beseems | E |
| And your nights have all the seeming | I |
| Of those days of golden dreams | E |
| Heaven smiles down on earth and then | K |
| Earth smiles up to heaven again | K |
Eugene Field
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