Night Of Frost In May Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCBBDBDBEBEB BFBFGHGH BIBIJKJKBLBLIB BBBBLBLBLLMM NNBOBOBBBBIBIBPQBBRR BB BBSSTBBTBLBL| With splendour of a silver day | A |
| A frosted night had opened May | A |
| And on that plumed and armoured night | B |
| As one close temple hove our wood | C |
| Its border leafage virgin white | B |
| Remote down air an owl hallooed | B |
| The black twig dropped without a twirl | D |
| The bud in jewelled grasp was nipped | B |
| The brown leaf cracked a scorching curl | D |
| A crystal off the green leaf slipped | B |
| Across the tracks of rimy tan | E |
| Some busy thread at whiles would shoot | B |
| A limping minnow rillet ran | E |
| To hang upon an icy foot | B |
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| In this shrill hush of quietude | B |
| The ear conceived a severing cry | F |
| Almost it let the sound elude | B |
| When chuckles three a warble shy | F |
| From hazels of the garden came | G |
| Near by the crimson windowed farm | H |
| They laid the trance on breath and frame | G |
| A prelude of the passion charm | H |
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| Then soon was heard not sooner heard | B |
| Than answered doubled trebled more | I |
| Voice of an Eden in the bird | B |
| Renewing with his pipe of four | I |
| The sob a troubled Eden rich | J |
| In throb of heart unnumbered throats | K |
| Flung upward at a fountain's pitch | J |
| The fervour of the four long notes | K |
| That on the fountain's pool subside | B |
| Exult and ruffle and upspring | L |
| Endless the crossing multiplied | B |
| Of silver and of golden string | L |
| There chimed a bubbled underbrew | I |
| With witch wild spray of vocal dew | B |
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| It seemed a single harper swept | B |
| Our wild wood's inner chords and waked | B |
| A spirit that for yearning ached | B |
| Ere men desired and joyed or wept | B |
| Or now a legion ravishing | L |
| Musician rivals did unite | B |
| In love of sweetness high to sing | L |
| The subtle song that rivals light | B |
| From breast of earth to breast of sky | L |
| And they were secret they were nigh | L |
| A hand the magic might disperse | M |
| The magic swung my universe | M |
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| Yet sharpened breath forbade to dream | N |
| Where all was visionary gleam | N |
| Where Seasons as with cymbals clashed | B |
| And feelings passing joy and woe | O |
| Churned gurgled spouted interflashed | B |
| Nor either was the one we know | O |
| Nor pregnant of the heart contained | B |
| In us were they that griefless plained | B |
| That plaining soared and through the heart | B |
| Struck to one note the wide apart | B |
| A passion surgent from despair | I |
| A paining bliss in fervid cold | B |
| Off the last vital edge of air | I |
| Leap heavenward of the lofty souled | B |
| For rapture of a wine of tears | P |
| As had a star among the spheres | Q |
| Caught up our earth to some mid height | B |
| Of double life to ear and sight | B |
| She giving voice to thought that shines | R |
| Keen brilliant of her deepest mines | R |
| While steely drips the rillet clinked | B |
| And hoar with crust the cowslip swelled | B |
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| Then was the lyre of earth beheld | B |
| Then heard by me it holds me linked | B |
| Across the years to dead ebb shores | S |
| I stand on my blood thrill restores | S |
| But would I conjure into me | T |
| Those issue notes I must review | B |
| What serious breath the woodland drew | B |
| The low throb of expectancy | T |
| How the white mother muteness pressed | B |
| On leaf and meadow herb how shook | L |
| Nigh speech of mouth the sparkle crest | B |
| Seen spinning on the bracken crook | L |
George Meredith
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