Dance Of The Seasons Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEDFGEFGAAHH IJJJFJFJAJAJ KLKLMNNMOOPPQR SJSJTTSSHHJUJUJJVJMV MSSTTSSWWMMSSJJHDDJJ S TXJXJJJUUSHSHYYYY ZTYTYJZJ JJJJSMSMTTV TMMVVXXVVA2A2B2B2UUP P MMC2AC2AHRHRPAPC2C2A AC2C2C2 M JZD2ZE2MMF2F2JJSJJSM AMAF2F2AF2 JG2JG2MMMMH2I2H2J2PF 2PF2AK2AK2ML2ML2MJAA F2F2 S ZNJTNJTF2M2F2M2N2SL2 L2SN2 MMTSSTO2SSO2SI Spring | A |
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Allegro | B |
Wake wake | C |
Out of the snow and the mist | D |
In rain wet wind blown gauze | E |
Of amber and amethyst | D |
Cometh Spring like a girl | F |
Trembling and timorous | G |
She peers through the thin white thaws | E |
Afraid of the winds that whirl | F |
Down paths all perilous | G |
Where her so tender feet are softly going | A |
Where the rich earth is awaiting her lavish sowing | A |
Of green and purple and white | H |
In the gardens of day and night | H |
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Hither she comes | I |
Oh lightly she wavers and lingers | J |
The chill gray storm benumbs | J |
Her lifted rose petal fingers | J |
And looses her hair from its fillet of pearl | F |
Her soft dew fringed eyes | J |
The virginal eyes of a girl | F |
Gaze at the foam veiled skies | J |
Search for the sun who is hiding | A |
His amorous glowing face | J |
For the spirit of life now gliding | A |
Unseen through every place | J |
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Blown blown | K |
Hither and yon | L |
Dashed by the winds that groan | K |
Lashed by the frost elves wan | L |
Whipped by the envious ghosts of old years long gone | M |
That chatter and sigh | N |
Of the ruin nigh | N |
Of death and darkness and sorrow that come anon | M |
Yet bold and brave | O |
She dares the young Spring to dance on that ancient grave | O |
To dance with delicate feet | P |
On the world's despair and defeat | P |
On the Winter's ashen pall | Q |
That covers all | R |
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Look she lifts the cover | S |
A corner of that frost film pall she lifts | J |
Now Earth great hearted lover | S |
Smiles upward through the dew bespangled rifts | J |
And shining sunbeams pages of the day | T |
Roll up the mantle bear it far away | T |
Then the Earth laughs with pleasure | S |
And tosses from her treasure | S |
Store of blue crocuses and snow drops white | H |
Glad trilliums that make the woodland bright | H |
Rich arbutus and shadowy violets | J |
Till caught in webs of bloom | U |
Light footed Spring her stormy woe forgets | J |
Forgets the cold the gloom | U |
Blesses with errant grace | J |
Each dim forgotten place | J |
Of drooping leaves muffles the maples bare | V |
In lilac veils covers with tenderness | J |
The harsh brown world and then when all is won | M |
Trails languorous dreams dreams exquisite and rare | V |
And shrinking from the bold too fervid sun | M |
Shyly gives over | S |
Her royal lover | S |
Like one afraid of love who will not stay | T |
Love's perfect day | T |
Lightly gives over | S |
Inconstant rover | S |
Her glad fresh garlanded world and like the dew | W |
Sleeps in the blue | W |
She tosses down | M |
Her flowery crown | M |
Into the lap of Summer | S |
Glad newcomer | S |
Smiling adorns her with treasure of growing things | J |
And softly sings | J |
Even while she fades in light | H |
A wraith a mist | D |
Of amethyst | D |
A spirit a dream that goes | J |
But whither who knows | J |
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II Summer | S |
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Andante | T |
Hus h hush Wake not the drowsy Summer she would dream | X |
Heavy with growing things | J |
Dance lightly where her beauty lies agleam | X |
Under languidly folded wings | J |
Over the delicate grasses | J |
A breath a spirit passes | J |
A song and the odor of bloom | U |
Give way make room | U |
The Summer has met her lover | S |
By day by night | H |
He has brought from the stars bright rover | S |
Heaven's fire heaven's light | H |
He has filled her with life that sleepeth | Y |
That waits for birth | Y |
As a jewel its bright fire keepeth | Y |
In the rock bound earth | Y |
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Softly slowly | Z |
Dance and sway | T |
While Summer dreameth | Y |
The moons away | T |
Full weary she seemeth | Y |
Of love's deep bliss | J |
But holy holy | Z |
Love's memories | J |
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The idle day is rich with budding things | J |
Whereon the bold sun glares | J |
Dance lightly lest you tread on folded wings | J |
Of flight still unawares | J |
Ah delicate your footfall be while ever | S |
The seed grows in the corn | M |
The bird in the egg the deed in the endeavor | S |
The day in the morn | M |
Deep in the pool the spawning fishes play | T |
High in the air the bees buzz out their way | T |
Everywhere | V |
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The children of Summer come crowding in lustrous array | T |
The myriad children of Summer beloved of the sun | M |
Through the long hot noons they are glad of the world they have won | M |
Bright and fair | V |
They throng in the meadows and shake out the dew from their hair | V |
They sing in the tree tops they dip in the slow flowing stream | X |
They nod from the hills in the valleys their swift feet gleam | X |
They kneel in the moonlight the bright stars hear their prayer | V |
Everywhere | V |
The high sun blesses them | A2 |
The moon confesses them | A2 |
Old Time with patient smile | B2 |
Harks to their hope awhile | B2 |
They are born they awake they arise now they dance in their bloom | U |
For their revels of love and of wonder the earth makes room | U |
Oh she harks to their song for a season she kisses their feet | P |
She gives them her all for their hour be its joy complete | P |
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The fecund Summer then | M |
Covers her eyes again | M |
Lies dreaming at rest | C2 |
Young mother of life who is feeding | A |
The world at her breast | C2 |
Rich bride of the year ever needing | A |
But love and light | H |
To give and give more and give all | R |
In her great love's might | H |
Tread softly give heed to her call | R |
Oh be still be fleet | P |
Hush hush the sweet sound of your singing | A |
Pause pause ye feet | P |
Sink down she bids you rest | C2 |
Close on her breast | C2 |
Down down your rapture flinging | A |
Where all her dreams are winging | A |
Ah cease your quest | C2 |
Peace be blest | C2 |
Be blest | C2 |
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III Autumn | M |
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Scherzo | J |
Co me with me | Z |
All that live | D2 |
Dance with me | Z |
Love and give | E2 |
Give me your love ye souls of the corn and the vine | M |
Dance with me laugh with me crowd me be mine be mine | M |
Up from the earth in your splendor of scarlet and gold | F2 |
Haste oh make haste ere the warm rich year grow old | F2 |
Ye throngs that gaily rise | J |
Multitudinous | J |
As the red red leaves that flutter | S |
All tremulous | J |
When the wind rides down from the skies | J |
Ye spirits that shout and mutter | S |
In laughter in pain | M |
When the year of her sowing and reaping | A |
Would waste again | M |
Come spend of your treasure full heaping | A |
Be lavish be bold | F2 |
Cast your hope on the winds from your feet shake the dark damp mould | F2 |
Come dancing come shouting come leaping | A |
Ere the earth grow cold | F2 |
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Come wings of the air come feet that trample the grasses | J |
Come tree top spirits that kindle the leaves to flame | G2 |
Come sprites of the sea that shout when the gray storm passes | J |
Come wraiths of the desert whom sorrow nor death may tame | G2 |
Come eat of the rich ripe fruit come drink of the vine | M |
Come dance till your revels are drunken with joy with wine | M |
For the labor is over and done | M |
The spoil of the battle is won | M |
Ah trample it scatter it | H2 |
Cast it afar | I2 |
The tempests will batter it | H2 |
On with the war | J2 |
Let your bright robes float let them whirl with the rush of your feet | P |
The gauzes of crimson and gold | F2 |
Give your will to the winds they are chasing they haste they are fleet | P |
They are eager and ruthless and bold | F2 |
On on till you circle the earth with the rush of your dancing | A |
With the shout and the song | K2 |
Till your choral of crowds like a river in flood time advancing | A |
Bears all things along | K2 |
Dance dance for the end comes soon | M |
Do you feel the chill | L2 |
White winds of the Winter croon | M |
From their cave in the hill | L2 |
Yes death and the end come soon | M |
Spread your gaudy robes | J |
Haste haste for the leaves are falling | A |
Shout shout for the storms are calling | A |
Give all for the year grows old | F2 |
And the world grows cold | F2 |
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IV Winter | S |
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Finale | Z |
Fly fly | N |
Gather your white robes close | J |
Scuttle away | T |
Look in the sky | N |
The bleak winds mutter morose | J |
To the swift dark day | T |
They gather and threaten and scold | F2 |
They shiver and shriek in their rage | M2 |
They are ashen and icy and old | F2 |
Ah bitter the passion of age | M2 |
Flee from them haste haste | N2 |
Through the vengeful weather | S |
Lest your red blood chill | L2 |
And your hearts stop still | L2 |
Crowd close together | S |
And flee o'er the drear dead waste | N2 |
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Down down | M |
Out of a sky all brown | M |
The dark storm stoops to shrivel the world away | T |
With ribald wind he strips her | S |
With stinging sleet he whips her | S |
With envious frost he withers her green to gray | T |
Because she was gay and glad | O2 |
Beloved of many lovers fruitful mother | S |
Of many children crowding and killing each other | S |
Because she was wasteful mad | O2 |
Scattering and trampling her riches for death to smother | S |
Harriet Monroe
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