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 OYOYI | A |
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The sky has turned its heart away | B |
The earth its sorrow found | C |
The daisies turn from childhood's play | B |
And creep into the ground | C |
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The earth is black and cold and hard | D |
Thin films of dry white ice | E |
Across the rugged wheel tracks barred | D |
The children's feet entice | E |
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Dark flows the stream as if it mourned | F |
The winter in the land | G |
With idle icicles adorned | F |
That mill wheel soon will stand | G |
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But friends to say 'tis cold and part | H |
Is to let in the cold | I |
We'll make a summer of the heart | H |
And laugh at winter old | I |
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II | A |
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With vague dead gleam the morning white | J |
Comes through the window panes | K |
The clouds have fallen all the night | J |
Without the noise of rains | K |
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As of departing unseen ghost | L |
Footprints go from the door | M |
The man himself must long be lost | N |
Who left those footprints hoar | M |
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Yet follow thou tread down the snow | O |
Leave all the road behind | P |
Heed not the winds that steely blow | O |
Heed not the sky unkind | P |
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For though the glittering air grow dark | Q |
The snow will shine till morn | R |
And long ere then one dear home spark | Q |
Will winter laugh to scorn | R |
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III | A |
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Oh wildly wild the roaring blast | S |
Torments the fallen snow | O |
The wintry storms are up at last | S |
And care not how they go | O |
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In foam like wreaths the water hoar | M |
Rapt whistling in the air | T |
Gleams through the dismal twilight frore | T |
A region in despair | T |
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A spectral ocean lies outside | U |
Torn by a tempest dark | Q |
Its ghostly billows dim descried | U |
Leap on my stranded bark | Q |
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Death sheeted figures long and white | U |
Rave driving through the spray | T |
Or bosomed in the ghastly night | U |
Shriek doom cries far away | T |
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IV | V |
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A morning clear with frosty light | U |
From sunbeams late and low | O |
They shine upon the snow so white | U |
And shine back from the snow | O |
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Down tusks of ice one drop will go | O |
Nor fall at sunny noon | W |
'Twill hang a diamond fade and grow | O |
An opal for the moon | W |
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And when the bright sad sun is low | O |
Behind the mountain dome | X |
A twilight wind will come and blow | O |
Around the children's home | X |
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And puff and waft the powdery snow | O |
As feet unseen did pass | Y |
While waiting in its bed below | O |
Green lies the summer grass | Y |
George Macdonald
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