Tardy Spring Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AAAA BCBCAAAAADADEFEFGHGH IAIAJKJKALALMNOOHOHO POPO AAAA

Now the North wind ceasesA
The warm South west awakesA
Swift fly the fleecesA
Thick the blossom flakesA
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Now hill to hill has made the strideB
And distance waves the without endC
Now in the breast a door flings wideB
Our farthest smiles our next is friendC
And song of England's rush of flowersA
Is this full breeze with mellow stopsA
That spins the lark for shine for showersA
He drinks his hurried flight and dropsA
The stir in memory seem these thingsA
Which out of moisten'd turf and clayD
Astrain for light push patient ringsA
Or leap to find the waterwayD
'Tis equal to a wonder doneE
Whatever simple lives renewF
Their tricks beneath the father sunE
As though they caught a broken clueF
So hard was earth an eyewink backG
But now the common life has comeH
The blotting cloud a dappled packG
The grasses one vast underhumH
A City clothed in snow and sootI
With lamps for day in ghostly rowsA
Breaks to the scene of hosts afootI
The river that reflective flowsA
And there did fog down crypts of streetJ
Play spectre upon eye and mouthK
Their faces are a glass to greetJ
This magic of the whirl for SouthK
A burly joy each creature swellsA
With sound of its own hungry questL
Earth has to fill her empty wellsA
And speed the service of the nestL
The phantom of the snow wreath meltM
That haunts the farmer's look abroadN
Who sees what tomb a white night builtO
Where flocks now bleat and sprouts the clodO
For iron Winter held her firmH
Across her sky he laid his handO
And bird he starved he stiffen'd wormH
A sightless heaven a shaven landO
Her shivering Spring feign'd fast asleepP
The bitten buds dared not unfoldO
We raced on roads and ice to keepP
Thought of the girl we love from coldO
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But now the North wind ceasesA
The warm South west awakesA
The heavens are out in fleecesA
And earth's green banner shakesA

George Meredith



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