Flood-tide Of Flowers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCBC DDEDE FFGFG HHFHF FFIFI FFCFC| IN HOLLAND | A |
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| The laggard winter ebbed so slow | B |
| With freezing rain and melting snow | B |
| It seemed as if the earth would stay | C |
| Forever where the tide was low | B |
| In sodden green and watery gray | C |
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| But now from depths beyond our sight | D |
| The tide is turning in the night | D |
| And floods of color long concealed | E |
| Come silent rising toward the light | D |
| Through garden bare and empty field | E |
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| And first along the sheltered nooks | F |
| The crocus runs in little brooks | F |
| Of joyance till by light made bold | G |
| They show the gladness of their looks | F |
| In shining pools of white and gold | G |
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| The tiny scilla sapphire blue | H |
| Is gently seeping in to strew | H |
| The earth with heaven and sudden rills | F |
| Of sunlit yellow sweeping through | H |
| Spread into lakes of daffodils | F |
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| The hyacinths with fragrant heads | F |
| Have overflowed their sandy beds | F |
| And fill the earth with faint perfume | I |
| The breath that Spring around her sheds | F |
| And now the tulips break in bloom | I |
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| A sea a rainbow tinted sea | F |
| A splendor and a mystery | F |
| Floods o'er the fields of faded gray | C |
| The roads are full of folks in glee | F |
| For lo to day is Easter Day | C |
Henry Van Dyke
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