January, 1885 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IEJEBKBK LMNMOHOH PQPQERER STSTUVUVThese winter days are passing fair | A |
As if a breath of spring | B |
Had permeated all the air | A |
And touched each living thing | B |
With thankfulness for such a boon | C |
Discounting with a scoff | D |
The almanac's report that June | C |
Is yet a long way off | D |
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We quarrel with the calendar | E |
For May has been misplaced | F |
And doubt the tale oracular | E |
Of Janus double faced | F |
For this ethereal mildness looks | G |
Toward shadowy delights | H |
Of roseate bowers of cosy nooks | G |
Of coming thermal nights | H |
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Let robes diaphanous succeed | I |
Dense garments made of fur | E |
And overcoats maintain the lead | J |
Among the things that were | E |
The wisely rented sealskin sacque | B |
By many a dame possessed | K |
Be quickly relegated back | B |
To its moth haunted chest | K |
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While every portly alderman | L |
In linen suit arrayed | M |
Manipulates the palm leaf fan | N |
And seeks the cooling shade | M |
And he perspires who not in vain | O |
Suggests his funny squibs | H |
By poking his unwelcome cane | O |
In other people's ribs | H |
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Who dares to fling opprobrium | P |
On January now | Q |
As to a potentate we come | P |
With reverential bow | Q |
Because it doth not yet appear | E |
That Time hath ever seen | R |
The ruler of th' inverted year | E |
In more benignant mien | R |
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O Boreas do not lie low | S |
That is if lie thou must | T |
Upon our planet do not blow | S |
With fierce and sudden gust | T |
But come so gently tenderly | U |
As come thou surely wilt | V |
That we may have sweet dreams of thee | U |
Beneath our crazy quilt | V |
Hattie Howard
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