Reflections Suggested By Winter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABAACADEFGAHAAIACAJA IKLMAANOAPQMRASTAUVW XYAZAA2

'Tis done dread winter spreads its latest gloomsA
And reigns tremendous o'er the conquer'd yearB
How dead the vegetable kingdom liesA
How dumb the tuneful Horror wide extendsA
His desolate domain Behold fond manC
See here thy pictured life pass some few yearsA
Thy flowering spring thy summer's ardent strengthD
And pale concluding winter comes at lastE
Thy sober autumn fading into ageF
And shuts the scene Ah whither now are fledG
Those dreams of greatness those unsolid hopesA
Of happiness those longings after fameH
Those restless cares those busy bustling daysA
Those gay spent festive nights those veering thoughtsA
Lost between good and ill that shared thy lifeI
All now are vanish'd Virtue sole survivesA
Immortal never failing friend of manC
His guide to happiness on high And seeA
'Tis come the glorious morn the second birthJ
Of heaven and earth awakening nature hearsA
The new creating word and starts to lifeI
In every heighten'd form from pain and deathK
For ever free The great eternal schemeL
Involving all and in a perfect wholeM
Uniting as the prospect wider spreadsA
To reason's eye refined clears up apaceA
Ye vainly wise ye blind presumptuous nowN
Confounded in the dust adore that PowerO
And Wisdom oft arraign'd see now the causeA
Why unassuming worth in secret livedP
And died neglected why the good man's shareQ
In life was gall and bitterness of soulM
Why the lone widow and her orphans pinedR
In starving solitude while luxuryA
In palaces lay straining her low thoughtS
To form unreal wants why heaven born truthT
And moderation fair wore the red marksA
Of superstition's scourge why licensed painU
That cruel spoiler that embosom'd foeV
Embitter'd all our bliss Ye good distress'dW
Ye noble few who here unbending standX
Beneath life's pressure yet bear up awhileY
And what your bounded view which only sawA
A little part deem'd evil is no moreZ
The storms of wintry time will quickly passA
And one unbounded spring encircle allA2

James Thomson



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