Tardy Spring Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAA BCBCAAAAADADEFEFGHGH IAIAJKJKALALMNOOHOHO POPO AAAANow the North wind ceases | A |
The warm South west awakes | A |
Swift fly the fleeces | A |
Thick the blossom flakes | A |
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Now hill to hill has made the stride | B |
And distance waves the without end | C |
Now in the breast a door flings wide | B |
Our farthest smiles our next is friend | C |
And song of England's rush of flowers | A |
Is this full breeze with mellow stops | A |
That spins the lark for shine for showers | A |
He drinks his hurried flight and drops | A |
The stir in memory seem these things | A |
Which out of moisten'd turf and clay | D |
Astrain for light push patient rings | A |
Or leap to find the waterway | D |
'Tis equal to a wonder done | E |
Whatever simple lives renew | F |
Their tricks beneath the father sun | E |
As though they caught a broken clue | F |
So hard was earth an eyewink back | G |
But now the common life has come | H |
The blotting cloud a dappled pack | G |
The grasses one vast underhum | H |
A City clothed in snow and soot | I |
With lamps for day in ghostly rows | A |
Breaks to the scene of hosts afoot | I |
The river that reflective flows | A |
And there did fog down crypts of street | J |
Play spectre upon eye and mouth | K |
Their faces are a glass to greet | J |
This magic of the whirl for South | K |
A burly joy each creature swells | A |
With sound of its own hungry quest | L |
Earth has to fill her empty wells | A |
And speed the service of the nest | L |
The phantom of the snow wreath melt | M |
That haunts the farmer's look abroad | N |
Who sees what tomb a white night built | O |
Where flocks now bleat and sprouts the clod | O |
For iron Winter held her firm | H |
Across her sky he laid his hand | O |
And bird he starved he stiffen'd worm | H |
A sightless heaven a shaven land | O |
Her shivering Spring feign'd fast asleep | P |
The bitten buds dared not unfold | O |
We raced on roads and ice to keep | P |
Thought of the girl we love from cold | O |
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But now the North wind ceases | A |
The warm South west awakes | A |
The heavens are out in fleeces | A |
And earth's green banner shakes | A |
George Meredith
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