On Winter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IDJK LMLM NOPO QRSR TETU VWXW| When smiling Summer's charms are past | A |
| The voice of music dies | B |
| Then Winter pours his chilling blast | A |
| From rough inclement skies | B |
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| The pensive dove shuts up her throat | C |
| The larks forbear to soar | D |
| Or raise one sweet delightful note | C |
| Which charm'd the ear before | D |
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| The screech owl peals her shivering tone | E |
| Upon the brink of night | F |
| As some sequestered child unknown | E |
| Which feared to come in sight | F |
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| The cattle all desert the field | G |
| And eager seek the glades | H |
| Of naked trees which once did yield | G |
| Their sweet and pleasant shades | H |
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| The humming insects all are still | I |
| The beetles rise no more | D |
| The constant tinkling of the bell | J |
| Along the heath is o'er | K |
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| Stern Boreas hurls each piercing gale | L |
| With snow clad wings along | M |
| Discharging volleys mixed with hail | L |
| Which chill the breeze of song | M |
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| Lo all the Southern windows close | N |
| Whence spicy breezes roll | O |
| The herbage sinks in sad repose | P |
| And Winter sweeps the whole | O |
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| Thus after youth old age comes on | Q |
| And brings the frost of time | R |
| And e'er our vigor has withdrawn | S |
| We shed the rose of prime | R |
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| Alas how quick it is the case | T |
| The scion youth is grown | E |
| How soon it runs its morning race | T |
| And beauty's sun goes down | U |
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| The Autumn of declining years | V |
| Must blanch the father's head | W |
| Encumbered with a load of cares | X |
| When youthful charms have fled | W |
George Moses Horton
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