The Four Seasons : Winter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIBJKLMNOEPAQ ERSTEEUVDWXYZPZYA2B2 EZC2EAD2EE2EF2C2A2EG 2H2I2ED2EJ2K2EGEL2EE 2EF2EM2WVN2JZEBEZO2D 2P2Q2ZR2ES2T2BU2Q2EE V2W2W2PEW2X2EW2ECY2Z 2W2AEZEZZ2EW2F2C2A3E B3EEW2ZC3EQ2ED3EE3EW 2ZF3W2G3EH3PBW2I3ZC2 W2J3EW2TK3EQ2W2Q2BW2 Y2W2K2R2EL3TXW2K3W2Y 2W2M3EN3

See Winter comes to rule the varied yearA
Sullen and sad with all his rising trainB
Vapours and clouds and storms Be these my themeC
These that exalt the soul to solemn thoughtD
And heavenly musing Welcome kindred gloomsE
Congenial horrors hail with frequent footF
Pleased have I in my cheerful morn of lifeG
When nursed by careless Solitude I livedH
And sung of Nature with unceasing joyI
Pleased have I wander'd through your rough domainB
Trod the pure virgin snows myself as pureJ
Heard the winds roar and the big torrent burstK
Or seen the deep fermenting tempest brew'dL
In the grim evening sky Thus pass'd the timeM
Till through the lucid chambers of the southN
Look'd out the joyous Spring look'd out and smiledO
To thee the patron of her first essayE
The Muse O Wilmington renews her songP
Since has she rounded the revolving yearA
Skimm'd the gay Spring on eagle pinions borneQ
Attempted through the Summer blaze to riseE
Then swept o'er Autumn with the shadowy galeR
And now among the wintry clouds againS
Roll'd in the doubling storm she tries to soarT
To swell her note with all the rushing windsE
To suit her sounding cadence to the floodsE
As is her theme her numbers wildly greatU
Thrice happy could she fill thy judging earV
With bold description and with manly thoughtD
Nor art thou skill'd in awful schemes aloneW
And how to make a mighty people thriveX
But equal goodness sound integrityY
A firm unshaken uncorrupted soulZ
Amid a sliding age and burning strongP
Not vainly blazing for thy country's wealZ
A steady spirit regularly freeY
These each exalting each the statesman lightA2
Into the patriot these the public hopeB2
And eye to thee converting bid the MuseE
Record what envy dares not flattery callZ
Now when the cheerless empire of the skyC2
To Capricorn the Centaur Archer yieldsE
And fierce Aquarius stains the inverted yearA
Hung o'er the farthest verge of Heaven the sunD2
Scarce spreads through ether the dejected dayE
Faint are his gleams and ineffectual shootE2
His struggling rays in horizontal linesE
Through the thick air as clothed in cloudy stormF2
Weak wan and broad he skirts the southern skyC2
And soon descending to the long dark nightA2
Wide shading all the prostrate world resignsE
Nor is the night unwish'd while vital heatG2
Light life and joy the dubious day forsakeH2
Meantime in sable cincture shadows vastI2
Deep tinged and damp and congregated cloudsE
And all the vapoury turbulence of HeavenD2
Involve the face of things Thus Winter fallsE
A heavy gloom oppressive o'er the worldJ2
Through Nature shedding influence malignK2
And rouses up the seeds of dark diseaseE
The soul of man dies in him loathing lifeG
And black with more than melancholy viewsE
The cattle droop and o'er the furrow'd landL2
Fresh from the plough the dun discolour'd flocksE
Untended spreading crop the wholesome rootE2
Along the woods along the moorish fensE
Sighs the sad Genius of the coming stormF2
And up among the loose disjointed cliffsE
And fractured mountains wild the brawling brookM2
And cave presageful send a hollow moanW
Resounding long in listening Fancy's earV
Then comes the father of the tempest forthN2
Wrapt in black glooms First joyless rains obscureJ
Drive through the mingling skies with vapour foulZ
Dash on the mountain's brow and shake the woodsE
That grumbling wave below The unsightly plainB
Lies a brown deluge as the low bent cloudsE
Pour flood on flood yet unexhausted stillZ
Combine and deepening into night shut upO2
The day's fair face The wanderers of HeavenD2
Each to his home retire save those that loveP2
To take their pastime in the troubled airQ2
Or skimming flutter round the dimply poolZ
The cattle from the untasted fields returnR2
And ask with meaning low their wonted stallsE
Or ruminate in the contiguous shadeS2
Thither the household feathery people crowdT2
The crested cock with all his female trainB
Pensive and dripping while the cottage hindU2
Hangs oe'r the enlivening blaze and taleful thereQ2
Recounts his simple frolic much he talksE
And much he laughs nor recks the storm that blowsE
Without and rattles on his humble roofV2
Wide o'er the brim with many a torrent swell'dW2
And the mix'd ruin of its banks o'erspreadW2
At last the roused up river pours alongP
Resistless roaring dreadful down it comesE
From the rude mountain and the mossy wildW2
Tumbling through rocks abrupt and sounding farX2
Then o'er the sanded valley floating spreadsE
Calm sluggish silent till again constrain'dW2
Between two meeting hills it bursts awayE
Where rocks and woods o'erhang the turbid streamC
There gathering triple force rapid and deepY2
It boils and wheels and foams and thunders throughZ2
Nature great parent whose unceasing handW2
Rolls round the seasons of the changeful yearA
How mighty how majestic are thy worksE
With what a pleasing dread they swell the soulZ
That sees astonish'd and astonish'd singsE
Ye too ye winds that now begin to blowZ
With boisterous sweep I raise my voice to youZ2
Where are your stores ye powerful beings sayE
Where your a rial magazines reservedW2
To swell the brooding terrors of the stormF2
In what far distant region of the skyC2
Hush'd in deep silence sleep ye when 'tis calmA3
When from the pallid sky the sun descendsE
With many a spot that o'er his glaring orbB3
Uncertain wanders stain'd red fiery streaksE
Begin to flush around The reeling cloudsE
Stagger with dizzy poise as doubting yetW2
Which master to obey while rising slowZ
Blank in the leaden colour'd east the moonC3
Wears a wan circle round her blunted hornsE
Seen through the turbid fluctuating airQ2
The stars obtuse emit a shiver'd rayE
Or frequent seem to shoot athwart the gloomD3
And long behind them trail the whitening blazeE
Snatch'd in short eddies plays the wither'd leafE3
And on the flood the dancing feather floatsE
With broaden'd nostrils to the sky upturn'dW2
The conscious heifer snuffs the stormy galeZ
E'en as the matron at her nightly taskF3
With pensive labour draws the flaxen threadW2
The wasted taper and the crackling flameG3
Foretell the blast But chief the plumy raceE
The tenants of the sky its changes speakH3
Retiring from the downs where all day longP
They pick'd their scanty fare a blackening trainB
Of clamorous rooks thick urge their weary flightW2
And seek the closing shelter of the groveI3
Assiduous in his bower the wailing owlZ
Plies his sad song The cormorant on highC2
Wheels from the deep and screams along the landW2
Loud shrieks the soaring hern and with wild wingJ3
The circling seafowl cleave the flaky cloudsE
Ocean unequal press'd with broken tideW2
And blind commotion heaves while from the shoreT
Eat into caverns by the restless waveK3
And forest rustling mountain comes a voiceE
That solemn sounding bids the world prepareQ2
Then issues forth the storm with sudden burstW2
And hurls the whole precipitated airQ2
Down in a torrent On the passive mainB
Descends the ethereal force and with strong gustW2
Turns from its bottom the discolour'd deepY2
Through the black night that sits immense aroundW2
Lash'd into foam the fierce conflicting brineK2
Seems o'er a thousand raging waves to burnR2
Meantime the mountain billows to the cloudsE
In dreadful tumult swell'd surge above surgeL3
Burst into chaos with tremendous roarT
And anchor'd navies from their stations driveX
Wild as the winds across the howling wasteW2
Of mighty waters now the inflated waveK3
Straining they scale and now impetuous shootW2
Into the secret chambers of the deepY2
The wintry Baltic thundering o'er their headW2
Emerging thence again before the breathM3
Of full exerted Heaven they wing their courseE
And dart on distant coasts ifN3

James Thomson



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