On A December Day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCB BCCB DEDEFF A GEEGGEHI JKKLEE| I | A |
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| This is the sweetness of an April day | B |
| The softness of the spring is on the face | C |
| Of the old year She has no natural grace | C |
| But something comes to her from far away | B |
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| Out of the Past and on her old decay | B |
| The beauty of her childhood you can trace | C |
| And yet she moveth with a stormy pace | C |
| And goeth quickly Stay old year oh stay | B |
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| We do not like new friends we love the old | D |
| With young fierce hopeful hearts we ill agree | E |
| But thou art patient stagnant calm and cold | D |
| And not like that new year that is to be | E |
| Life promise love her eyes may fill fair child | F |
| We know the past and will not be beguiled | F |
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| II | A |
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| Yet the free heart will not be captive long | G |
| And if she changes often she is free | E |
| But if she changes One has mastery | E |
| Who makes the joy the last in every song | G |
| And so to day I blessed the breezes strong | G |
| That swept the blue I blessed the breezes free | E |
| That rolled wet leaves like rivers shiningly | H |
| I blessed the purple woods I stood among | I |
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| And yet the spring is better Bitterness | J |
| Came with the words but did not stay with them | K |
| Accomplishment and promise field and stem | K |
| New green fresh growing in a fragrant dress | L |
| And we behind with death and memory | E |
| Nay prophet spring but I will follow thee | E |
George Macdonald
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