In The Springtime I Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFG HGIG JKLK MMNM'T is spring The boats bound to the sea | A |
The breezes loitering kindly over | B |
The fields again bring herds and men | C |
The grateful cheer of honeyed clover | B |
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Now Venus hither leads her train | D |
The Nymphs and Graces join in orgies | E |
The moon is bright and by her light | F |
Old Vulcan kindles up his forges | G |
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Bind myrtle now about your brow | H |
And weave fair flowers in maiden tresses | G |
Appease god Pan who kind to man | I |
Our fleeting life with affluence blesses | G |
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But let the changing seasons mind us | J |
That Death's the certain doom of mortals | K |
Grim Death who waits at humble gates | L |
And likewise stalks through kingly portals | K |
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Soon Sestius shall Plutonian shades | M |
Enfold you with their hideous seemings | M |
Then love and mirth and joys of earth | N |
Shall fade away like fevered dreamings | M |
Eugene Field
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