The Death Of Winter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEFEFCDAAA GDGDDHDIIID JKLJMMAN| When April with her wild blue eye | A |
| Comes dancing over the grass | B |
| And all the crimson buds so shy | A |
| Peep out to see her pass | B |
| As lightly she loosens her showery locks | C |
| And flutters her rainy wings | D |
| Laughingly stoops | E |
| To the glass of the stream | F |
| And loosens and loops | E |
| Her hair by the gleam | F |
| While all the young villagers blithe as the flocks | C |
| Go frolicking round in rings | D |
| Then Winter he who tamed the fly | A |
| Turns on his back and prepares to die | A |
| For he cannot live longer under the sky | A |
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| Down the valleys glittering green | G |
| Down from the hills in snowy rills | D |
| He melts between the border sheen | G |
| And leaps the flowery verges | D |
| He cannot choose but brighten their hues | D |
| And tho' he would creep he fain must leap | H |
| For the quick Spring spirit urges | D |
| Down the vale and down the dale | I |
| He leaps and lights till his moments fail | I |
| Buried in blossoms red and pale | I |
| While the sweet birds sing his dirges | D |
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| O Winter I'd live that life of thine | J |
| With a frosty brow and an icicle tongue | K |
| And never a song my whole life long | L |
| Were such delicious burial mine | J |
| To die and be buried and so remain | M |
| A wandering brook in April's train | M |
| Fixing my dying eyes for aye | A |
| On the dawning brows of maiden May | N |
George Meredith
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