The Crocuses Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EFEG EHEH IHJH KJLJ MNON PHJH HHQH KRJR| In the everlasting arms | A |
| Mid life's dangers and alarms | A |
| Let calm trust your spirit fill | B |
| Know He's God and then be still | B |
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| Trustingly I raised my head | C |
| Hearing what the atom said | C |
| Knowing man is greater far | D |
| Than the brightest sun or star | D |
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| They heard the South wind sighing | E |
| A murmur of the rain | F |
| And they knew that Earth was longing | E |
| To see them all again | G |
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| While the snow drops still were sleeping | E |
| Beneath the silent sod | H |
| They felt their new life pulsing | E |
| Within the dark cold clod | H |
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| Not a daffodil nor daisy | I |
| Had dared to raise its head | H |
| Not a fairhaired dandelion | J |
| Peeped timid from its bed | H |
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| Though a tremor of the winter | K |
| Did shivering through them run | J |
| Yet they lifted up their foreheads | L |
| To greet the vernal sun | J |
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| And the sunbeams gave them welcome | M |
| As did the morning air | N |
| And scattered o'er their simple robes | O |
| Rich tints of beauty rare | N |
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| Soon a host of lovely flowers | P |
| From vales and woodland burst | H |
| But in all that fair procession | J |
| The crocuses were first | H |
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| First to weave for Earth a chaplet | H |
| To crown her dear old head | H |
| And to beautify the pathway | Q |
| Where winter still did tread | H |
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| And their loved and white haired mother | K |
| Smiled sweetly 'neath the touch | R |
| When she knew her faithful children | J |
| Were loving her so much | R |
Frances E. W. Harper
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