The Crocuses Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC ADAD EDFD GFHF IJKJ LDFD DDMD GNFN| They heard the South wind sighing | A |
| A murmur of the rain | B |
| And they knew that Earth was longing | A |
| To see them all again | C |
| - | |
| While the snow drops still were sleeping | A |
| Beneath the silent sod | D |
| They felt their new life pulsing | A |
| Within the dark cold clod | D |
| - | |
| Not a daffodil nor daisy | E |
| Had dared to raise its head | D |
| Not a fairhaired dandelion | F |
| Peeped timid from its bed | D |
| - | |
| Though a tremor of the winter | G |
| Did shivering through them run | F |
| Yet they lifted up their foreheads | H |
| To greet the vernal sun | F |
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| And the sunbeams gave them welcome | I |
| As did the morning air | J |
| And scattered o'er their simple robes | K |
| Rich tints of beauty rare | J |
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| Soon a host of lovely flowers | L |
| From vales and woodland burst | D |
| But in all that fair procession | F |
| The crocuses were first | D |
| - | |
| First to weave for Earth a chaplet | D |
| To crown her dear old head | D |
| And to beautify the pathway | M |
| Where winter still did tread | D |
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| And their loved and white haired mother | G |
| Smiled sweetly 'neath the touch | N |
| When she knew her faithful children | F |
| Were loving her so much | N |
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
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