On Spring Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DEFGHF IIJKKJ LLCMMC NNJBBJ DEMOPM AABGHB| Hail thou auspicious vernal dawn | A |
| Ye birds proclaim the winter's gone | A |
| Ye warbling minstrels sing | B |
| Pour forth your tribute as ye rise | C |
| And thus salute the fragrant skies | C |
| The pleasing smiles of Spring | B |
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| Coo sweetly oh thou harmless Dove | D |
| And bid thy mate no longer rove | E |
| In cold hybernal vales | F |
| Let music rise from every tongue | G |
| Whilst winter flies before the song | H |
| Which floats on gentle gales | F |
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| Ye frozen streams dissolve and flow | I |
| Along the valley sweet and slow | I |
| Divested fields be gay | J |
| Ye drooping forests bloom on high | K |
| And raise your branches to the sky | K |
| And thus your charms display | J |
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| Thou world of heat thou vital source | L |
| The torpid insects feel thy force | L |
| Which all with life supplies | C |
| Gardens and orchards richly bloom | M |
| And send a gale of sweet perfume | M |
| To invite them as they rise | C |
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| Near where the crystal waters glide | N |
| The male of birds escorts his bride | N |
| And twitters on the spray | J |
| He mounts upon his active wing | B |
| To hail the bounty of the Spring | B |
| The lavish pomp of May | J |
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| Inspiring month of youthful Love | D |
| How oft we in the peaceful grove | E |
| Survey the flowery plume | M |
| Or sit beneath the sylvan shade | O |
| Where branches wave above the head | P |
| And smile on every bloom | M |
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| Exalted month when thou art gone | A |
| May Virtue then begin the dawn | A |
| Of an eternal Spring | B |
| May raptures kindle on my tongue | G |
| And start a new eternal song | H |
| Which ne'er shall cease to ring | B |
George Moses Horton
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