Isle Of Wight - Spring, 1891 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAA BCBC DEFE GHGH AIAI JKLK MNMN NONO PQPQ NNNN RSRT UAUA AAAA| I know not what the cause may be | A |
| Or whether there be one or many | A |
| But this year's Spring has seemed to me | A |
| More exquisite than any | A |
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| What happy days we spent together | B |
| In that fair Isle of primrose flowers | C |
| How brilliant was the April weather | B |
| What glorious sunshine and what showers | C |
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| I think the leaves peeped out and in | D |
| At every change from cold to heat | E |
| The grass threw off a livelier sheen | F |
| From dewdrops sparkling at our feet | E |
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| What wealth of early bloom was there | G |
| The wind flow'r and the primrose pale | H |
| On bank or copse and orchis rare | G |
| And cowslip covering Wroxhall dale | H |
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| And oh the splendour of the sea | A |
| The blue belt glimmering soft and far | I |
| Through many a tumbled rock and tree | A |
| Strewn 'neath the overhanging scar | I |
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| 'Tis twenty years and more since here | J |
| As man and wife we sought this Isle | K |
| Dear to us both O wife most dear | L |
| And we can greet it with a smile | K |
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| Not now alone we come once more | M |
| But bringing young ones of our brood | N |
| One boy Salopian and four | M |
| Girls blooming into maidenhood | N |
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| And I had late begun to fret | N |
| And sicken at the sordid town | O |
| The crime the guilt and loathlier yet | N |
| The helpless hopeless sinking down | O |
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| The want the misery the woe | P |
| The stubborn heart which will not turn | Q |
| The tears which will or will not flow | P |
| The shame which does or does not burn | Q |
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| And Winter's frosts had proved unkind | N |
| With darkest gloom and deadliest cold | N |
| A time which will be brought to mind | N |
| And talked of when our boys are old | N |
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| And thus the contrast seemed to wake | R |
| New vigour in the heart and brain | S |
| Sea land and sky conspired to make | R |
| The jaded spirit young again | T |
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| Or hopes for growing girl or boy | U |
| Or thankfulness for things that be | A |
| Or sweet content in wedded joy | U |
| Set all the world to harmony | A |
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| And so I know not if it be | A |
| That there are causes one or many | A |
| But this year's Spring still seems to me | A |
| More exquisite than any | A |
Horace Smith
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