Spring Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC DDDD EFDD GGHH IIJJ KKLL DDMM NNOO DDPP JJQQ RRSS TTMM UUVV WWDD DDXX YYZZ DDDDSpring with that nameless pathos in the air | A |
Which dwells with all things fair | A |
Spring with her golden suns and silver rain | B |
Is with us once again | C |
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Out in the lonely woods the jasmine burns | D |
Its fragrant lamps and turns | D |
Into a royal court with green festoons | D |
The banks of dark lagoons | D |
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In the deep heart of every forest tree | E |
The blood is all aglee | F |
And there's a look about the leafless bowers | D |
As if they dreamed of flowers | D |
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Yet still on every side we trace the hand | G |
Of Winter in the land | G |
Save where the maple reddens on the lawn | H |
Flushed by the season's dawn | H |
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Or where like those strange semblances we find | I |
That age to childhood bind | I |
The elm puts on as if in Nature's scorn | J |
The brown of Autumn corn | J |
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As yet the turf is dark although you know | K |
That not a span below | K |
A thousand germs are groping through the gloom | L |
And soon will burst their tomb | L |
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Already here and there on frailest stems | D |
Appear some azure gems | D |
Small as might deck upon a gala day | M |
The forehead of a fay | M |
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In gardens you may note amid the dearth | N |
The crocus breaking earth | N |
And near the snowdrop's tender white and green | O |
The violet in its screen | O |
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But many gleams and shadows need must pass | D |
Along the budding grass | D |
And weeks go by before the enamored South | P |
Shall kiss the rose's mouth | P |
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Still there's a sense of blossoms yet unborn | J |
In the sweet airs of morn | J |
One almost looks to see the very street | Q |
Grow purple at his feet | Q |
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At times a fragrant breeze comes floating by | R |
And brings you know not why | R |
A feeling as when eager crowds await | S |
Before a palace gate | S |
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Some wondrous pageant and you scarce would start | T |
If from a beech's heart | T |
A blue eyed Dryad stepping forth should say | M |
Behold me I am May | M |
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Ah who would couple thoughts of war and crime | U |
With such a bless ed time | U |
Who in the west wind's aromatic breath | V |
Could hear the call of Death | V |
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Yet not more surely shall the Spring awake | W |
The voice of wood and brake | W |
Than she shall rouse for all her tranquil charms | D |
A million men to arms | D |
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There shall be deeper hues upon her plains | D |
Than all her sunlit rains | D |
And every gladdening influence around | X |
Can summon from the ground | X |
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Oh standing on this desecrated mould | Y |
Methinks that I behold | Y |
Lifting her bloody daisies up to God | Z |
Spring kneeling on the sod | Z |
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And calling with the voice of all her rills | D |
Upon the ancient hills | D |
To fall and crush the tyrants and the slaves | D |
Who turn her meads to graves | D |
Henry Timrod
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