Seed-time Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCEFEE A EGEHEIEI A EJEJAEAE A KLKLEMEM A NENEOPOP A EQEQJAJA| I | A |
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| Flowers of the willow herb are wool | B |
| Flowers of the briar berries red | C |
| Speeding their seed as the breeze may rule | D |
| Flowers of the thistle loosen the thread | C |
| Flowers of the clematis drip in beard | E |
| Slack from the fir tree youngly climbed | F |
| Chaplets in air flies foliage seared | E |
| Heeled upon earth lie clusters rimed | E |
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| II | A |
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| Where were skies of the mantle stained | E |
| Orange and scarlet a coat of frieze | G |
| Travels from North till day has waned | E |
| Tattered soaked in the ditch's dyes | H |
| Tumbles the rook under grey or slate | E |
| Else enfolding us damps to the bone | I |
| Narrows the world to my neighbour's gate | E |
| Paints me Life as a wheezy crone | I |
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| III | A |
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| Now seems none but the spider lord | E |
| Star in circle his web waits prey | J |
| Silvering bush mounds blue brushing sward | E |
| Slow runs the hour swift flits the ray | J |
| Now to his thread shroud is he nigh | A |
| Nigh to the tangle where wings are sealed | E |
| He who frolicked the jewelled fly | A |
| All is adroop on the down and the weald | E |
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| IV | A |
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| Mists more lone for the sheep bell enwrap | K |
| Nights that tardily let slip a morn | L |
| Paler than moons and on noontide's lap | K |
| Flame dies cold like the rose late born | L |
| Rose born late born withered in bud | E |
| I even I for a zenith of sun | M |
| Cry to fulfil me nourish my blood | E |
| O for a day of the long light one | M |
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| V | A |
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| Master the blood nor read by chills | N |
| Earth admonishes Hast thou ploughed | E |
| Sown reaped harvested grain for the mills | N |
| Thou hast the light over shadow of cloud | E |
| Steadily eyeing before that wail | O |
| Animal infant thy mind began | P |
| Momently nearer me should sight fail | O |
| Plod in the track of the husbandman | P |
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| VI | A |
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| Verily now is our season of seed | E |
| Now in our Autumn and Earth discerns | Q |
| Them that have served her in them that can read | E |
| Glassing where under the surface she burns | Q |
| Quick at her wheel while the fuel decay | J |
| Brightens the fire of renewal and we | A |
| Death is the word of a bovine day | J |
| Know you the breast of the springing To be | A |
George Meredith
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