In The Winter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD AEAEAFAF AGAGHIHI JKJKIJIJ JCJCLMLM| In the winter flowers are springing | A |
| In the winter woods are green | B |
| Where our banished birds are singing | A |
| Where our summer sun is seen | B |
| Our cold midnights are coeval | C |
| With an evening and a morn | D |
| Where the forest gods hold revel | C |
| And the spring is newly born | D |
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| While the earth is full of fighting | A |
| While men rise and curse their day | E |
| While the foolish strong are smiting | A |
| And the foolish weak betray | E |
| The true hearts beyond are growing | A |
| The brave spirits work alone | F |
| Where Love's summer wind is blowing | A |
| In a truth irradiate zone | F |
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| While we cannot shape our living | A |
| To the beauty of our skies | G |
| While man wants and earth is giving | A |
| Nature calls and man denies | G |
| How the old worlds round Him gather | H |
| Where their Maker is their sun | I |
| How the children know the Father | H |
| Where the will of God is done | I |
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| Daily woven with our story | J |
| Sounding far above our strife | K |
| Is a time enclosing glory | J |
| Is a space absorbing life | K |
| We can dream no dream Elysian | I |
| There is no good thing might be | J |
| But some angel has the vision | I |
| But some human soul shall see | J |
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| Is thy strait horizon dreary | J |
| Is thy foolish fancy chill | C |
| Change the feet that have grown weary | J |
| For the wings that never will | C |
| Burst the flesh and live the spirit | L |
| Haunt the beautiful and far | M |
| Thou hast all things to inherit | L |
| And a soul for every star | M |
George Macdonald
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