Songs Of The Winter Days Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEDE FGFG HIHI A JKJK LMNM OPOP QRQR A SOSO MTTT UQUQ UTUT V UOUO OWOW OXOX OYOY

IA
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The sky has turned its heart awayB
The earth its sorrow foundC
The daisies turn from childhood's playB
And creep into the groundC
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The earth is black and cold and hardD
Thin films of dry white iceE
Across the rugged wheel tracks barredD
The children's feet enticeE
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Dark flows the stream as if it mournedF
The winter in the landG
With idle icicles adornedF
That mill wheel soon will standG
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But friends to say 'tis cold and partH
Is to let in the coldI
We'll make a summer of the heartH
And laugh at winter oldI
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IIA
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With vague dead gleam the morning whiteJ
Comes through the window panesK
The clouds have fallen all the nightJ
Without the noise of rainsK
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As of departing unseen ghostL
Footprints go from the doorM
The man himself must long be lostN
Who left those footprints hoarM
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Yet follow thou tread down the snowO
Leave all the road behindP
Heed not the winds that steely blowO
Heed not the sky unkindP
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For though the glittering air grow darkQ
The snow will shine till mornR
And long ere then one dear home sparkQ
Will winter laugh to scornR
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IIIA
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Oh wildly wild the roaring blastS
Torments the fallen snowO
The wintry storms are up at lastS
And care not how they goO
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In foam like wreaths the water hoarM
Rapt whistling in the airT
Gleams through the dismal twilight froreT
A region in despairT
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A spectral ocean lies outsideU
Torn by a tempest darkQ
Its ghostly billows dim descriedU
Leap on my stranded barkQ
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Death sheeted figures long and whiteU
Rave driving through the sprayT
Or bosomed in the ghastly nightU
Shriek doom cries far awayT
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IVV
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A morning clear with frosty lightU
From sunbeams late and lowO
They shine upon the snow so whiteU
And shine back from the snowO
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Down tusks of ice one drop will goO
Nor fall at sunny noonW
'Twill hang a diamond fade and growO
An opal for the moonW
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And when the bright sad sun is lowO
Behind the mountain domeX
A twilight wind will come and blowO
Around the children's homeX
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And puff and waft the powdery snowO
As feet unseen did passY
While waiting in its bed belowO
Green lies the summer grassY

George Macdonald



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