Reflections Suggested By Winter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAACADEFGAHAAIACAJA IKLMAANOAPQMRASTAUVW XYAZAA2'Tis done dread winter spreads its latest glooms | A |
And reigns tremendous o'er the conquer'd year | B |
How dead the vegetable kingdom lies | A |
How dumb the tuneful Horror wide extends | A |
His desolate domain Behold fond man | C |
See here thy pictured life pass some few years | A |
Thy flowering spring thy summer's ardent strength | D |
And pale concluding winter comes at last | E |
Thy sober autumn fading into age | F |
And shuts the scene Ah whither now are fled | G |
Those dreams of greatness those unsolid hopes | A |
Of happiness those longings after fame | H |
Those restless cares those busy bustling days | A |
Those gay spent festive nights those veering thoughts | A |
Lost between good and ill that shared thy life | I |
All now are vanish'd Virtue sole survives | A |
Immortal never failing friend of man | C |
His guide to happiness on high And see | A |
'Tis come the glorious morn the second birth | J |
Of heaven and earth awakening nature hears | A |
The new creating word and starts to life | I |
In every heighten'd form from pain and death | K |
For ever free The great eternal scheme | L |
Involving all and in a perfect whole | M |
Uniting as the prospect wider spreads | A |
To reason's eye refined clears up apace | A |
Ye vainly wise ye blind presumptuous now | N |
Confounded in the dust adore that Power | O |
And Wisdom oft arraign'd see now the cause | A |
Why unassuming worth in secret lived | P |
And died neglected why the good man's share | Q |
In life was gall and bitterness of soul | M |
Why the lone widow and her orphans pined | R |
In starving solitude while luxury | A |
In palaces lay straining her low thought | S |
To form unreal wants why heaven born truth | T |
And moderation fair wore the red marks | A |
Of superstition's scourge why licensed pain | U |
That cruel spoiler that embosom'd foe | V |
Embitter'd all our bliss Ye good distress'd | W |
Ye noble few who here unbending stand | X |
Beneath life's pressure yet bear up awhile | Y |
And what your bounded view which only saw | A |
A little part deem'd evil is no more | Z |
The storms of wintry time will quickly pass | A |
And one unbounded spring encircle all | A2 |
James Thomson
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