Songs Of The Spring Days Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEDE FGFG HIHI A IAIC JKJK LMLM NONO A CPCP AQAR STUT VWVW X YNYN ZA2ZF B2XB2X IC2IC2| I | A |
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| A gentle wind of western birth | B |
| On some far summer sea | C |
| Wakes daisies in the wintry earth | B |
| Wakes hopes in wintry me | C |
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| The sun is low the paths are wet | D |
| And dance with frolic hail | E |
| The trees their spring time is not yet | D |
| Swing sighing in the gale | E |
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| Young gleams of sunshine peep and play | F |
| Clouds shoulder in between | G |
| I scarce believe one coming day | F |
| The earth will all be green | G |
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| The north wind blows and blasts and raves | H |
| And flaps his snowy wing | I |
| Back toss thy bergs on arctic waves | H |
| Thou canst not bar our spring | I |
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| II | A |
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| Up comes the primrose wondering | I |
| The snowdrop droopeth by | A |
| The holy spirit of the spring | I |
| Is working silently | C |
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| Soft breathing breezes woo and wile | J |
| The later children out | K |
| O'er woods and farms a sunny smile | J |
| Is flickering about | K |
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| The earth was cold hard hearted dull | L |
| To death almost she slept | M |
| Over her heaven grew beautiful | L |
| And forth her beauty crept | M |
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| Showers yet must fall and waters grow | N |
| Dark wan with furrowing blast | O |
| But suns will shine and soft winds blow | N |
| Till the year flowers at last | O |
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| III | A |
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| The sky is smiling over me | C |
| Hath smiled away the frost | P |
| White daisies star the sky like lea | C |
| With buds the wood's embossed | P |
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| Troops of wild flowers gaze at the sky | A |
| Up through the latticed boughs | Q |
| Till comes the green cloud by and by | A |
| It is not time to house | R |
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| Yours is the day sweet bird sing on | S |
| The winter is forgot | T |
| Like an ill dream 'tis over and gone | U |
| Pain that is past is not | T |
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| Joy that was past is yet the same | V |
| If care the summer brings | W |
| 'Twill only be another name | V |
| For love that broods not sings | W |
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| IV | X |
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| Blow on me wind from west and south | Y |
| Sweet summer spirit blow | N |
| Come like a kiss from dear child's mouth | Y |
| Who knows not what I know | N |
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| The earth's perfection dawneth soon | Z |
| Ours lingereth alway | A2 |
| We have a morning not a noon | Z |
| Spring but no summer gay | F |
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| Rose blotted eve gold branded morn | B2 |
| Crown soon the swift year's life | X |
| In us a higher hope is born | B2 |
| And claims a longer strife | X |
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| Will heaven be an eternal spring | I |
| With summer at the door | C2 |
| Or shall we one day tell its king | I |
| That we desire no more | C2 |
George Macdonald
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