The Four Seasons : Winter Poem Rhyme Scheme

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See Winter comes to rule the varied year	A
Sullen and sad with all his rising train	B
Vapours and clouds and storms Be these my theme	C
These that exalt the soul to solemn thought	D
And heavenly musing Welcome kindred glooms	E
Congenial horrors hail with frequent foot	F
Pleased have I in my cheerful morn of life	G
When nursed by careless Solitude I lived	H
And sung of Nature with unceasing joy	I
Pleased have I wander'd through your rough domain	B
Trod the pure virgin snows myself as pure	J
Heard the winds roar and the big torrent burst	K
Or seen the deep fermenting tempest brew'd	L
In the grim evening sky Thus pass'd the time	M
Till through the lucid chambers of the south	N
Look'd out the joyous Spring look'd out and smiled	O
To thee the patron of her first essay	E
The Muse O Wilmington renews her song	P
Since has she rounded the revolving year	A
Skimm'd the gay Spring on eagle pinions borne	Q
Attempted through the Summer blaze to rise	E
Then swept o'er Autumn with the shadowy gale	R
And now among the wintry clouds again	S
Roll'd in the doubling storm she tries to soar	T
To swell her note with all the rushing winds	E
To suit her sounding cadence to the floods	E
As is her theme her numbers wildly great	U
Thrice happy could she fill thy judging ear	V
With bold description and with manly thought	D
Nor art thou skill'd in awful schemes alone	W
And how to make a mighty people thrive	X
But equal goodness sound integrity	Y
A firm unshaken uncorrupted soul	Z
Amid a sliding age and burning strong	P
Not vainly blazing for thy country's weal	Z
A steady spirit regularly free	Y
These each exalting each the statesman light	A2
Into the patriot these the public hope	B2
And eye to thee converting bid the Muse	E
Record what envy dares not flattery call	Z
Now when the cheerless empire of the sky	C2
To Capricorn the Centaur Archer yields	E
And fierce Aquarius stains the inverted year	A
Hung o'er the farthest verge of Heaven the sun	D2
Scarce spreads through ether the dejected day	E
Faint are his gleams and ineffectual shoot	E2
His struggling rays in horizontal lines	E
Through the thick air as clothed in cloudy storm	F2
Weak wan and broad he skirts the southern sky	C2
And soon descending to the long dark night	A2
Wide shading all the prostrate world resigns	E
Nor is the night unwish'd while vital heat	G2
Light life and joy the dubious day forsake	H2
Meantime in sable cincture shadows vast	I2
Deep tinged and damp and congregated clouds	E
And all the vapoury turbulence of Heaven	D2
Involve the face of things Thus Winter falls	E
A heavy gloom oppressive o'er the world	J2
Through Nature shedding influence malign	K2
And rouses up the seeds of dark disease	E
The soul of man dies in him loathing life	G
And black with more than melancholy views	E
The cattle droop and o'er the furrow'd land	L2
Fresh from the plough the dun discolour'd flocks	E
Untended spreading crop the wholesome root	E2
Along the woods along the moorish fens	E
Sighs the sad Genius of the coming storm	F2
And up among the loose disjointed cliffs	E
And fractured mountains wild the brawling brook	M2
And cave presageful send a hollow moan	W
Resounding long in listening Fancy's ear	V
Then comes the father of the tempest forth	N2
Wrapt in black glooms First joyless rains obscure	J
Drive through the mingling skies with vapour foul	Z
Dash on the mountain's brow and shake the woods	E
That grumbling wave below The unsightly plain	B
Lies a brown deluge as the low bent clouds	E
Pour flood on flood yet unexhausted still	Z
Combine and deepening into night shut up	O2
The day's fair face The wanderers of Heaven	D2
Each to his home retire save those that love	P2
To take their pastime in the troubled air	Q2
Or skimming flutter round the dimply pool	Z
The cattle from the untasted fields return	R2
And ask with meaning low their wonted stalls	E
Or ruminate in the contiguous shade	S2
Thither the household feathery people crowd	T2
The crested cock with all his female train	B
Pensive and dripping while the cottage hind	U2
Hangs oe'r the enlivening blaze and taleful there	Q2
Recounts his simple frolic much he talks	E
And much he laughs nor recks the storm that blows	E
Without and rattles on his humble roof	V2
Wide o'er the brim with many a torrent swell'd	W2
And the mix'd ruin of its banks o'erspread	W2
At last the roused up river pours along	P
Resistless roaring dreadful down it comes	E
From the rude mountain and the mossy wild	W2
Tumbling through rocks abrupt and sounding far	X2
Then o'er the sanded valley floating spreads	E
Calm sluggish silent till again constrain'd	W2
Between two meeting hills it bursts away	E
Where rocks and woods o'erhang the turbid stream	C
There gathering triple force rapid and deep	Y2
It boils and wheels and foams and thunders through	Z2
Nature great parent whose unceasing hand	W2
Rolls round the seasons of the changeful year	A
How mighty how majestic are thy works	E
With what a pleasing dread they swell the soul	Z
That sees astonish'd and astonish'd sings	E
Ye too ye winds that now begin to blow	Z
With boisterous sweep I raise my voice to you	Z2
Where are your stores ye powerful beings say	E
Where your a rial magazines reserved	W2
To swell the brooding terrors of the storm	F2
In what far distant region of the sky	C2
Hush'd in deep silence sleep ye when 'tis calm	A3
When from the pallid sky the sun descends	E
With many a spot that o'er his glaring orb	B3
Uncertain wanders stain'd red fiery streaks	E
Begin to flush around The reeling clouds	E
Stagger with dizzy poise as doubting yet	W2
Which master to obey while rising slow	Z
Blank in the leaden colour'd east the moon	C3
Wears a wan circle round her blunted horns	E
Seen through the turbid fluctuating air	Q2
The stars obtuse emit a shiver'd ray	E
Or frequent seem to shoot athwart the gloom	D3
And long behind them trail the whitening blaze	E
Snatch'd in short eddies plays the wither'd leaf	E3
And on the flood the dancing feather floats	E
With broaden'd nostrils to the sky upturn'd	W2
The conscious heifer snuffs the stormy gale	Z
E'en as the matron at her nightly task	F3
With pensive labour draws the flaxen thread	W2
The wasted taper and the crackling flame	G3
Foretell the blast But chief the plumy race	E
The tenants of the sky its changes speak	H3
Retiring from the downs where all day long	P
They pick'd their scanty fare a blackening train	B
Of clamorous rooks thick urge their weary flight	W2
And seek the closing shelter of the grove	I3
Assiduous in his bower the wailing owl	Z
Plies his sad song The cormorant on high	C2
Wheels from the deep and screams along the land	W2
Loud shrieks the soaring hern and with wild wing	J3
The circling seafowl cleave the flaky clouds	E
Ocean unequal press'd with broken tide	W2
And blind commotion heaves while from the shore	T
Eat into caverns by the restless wave	K3
And forest rustling mountain comes a voice	E
That solemn sounding bids the world prepare	Q2
Then issues forth the storm with sudden burst	W2
And hurls the whole precipitated air	Q2
Down in a torrent On the passive main	B
Descends the ethereal force and with strong gust	W2
Turns from its bottom the discolour'd deep	Y2
Through the black night that sits immense around	W2
Lash'd into foam the fierce conflicting brine	K2
Seems o'er a thousand raging waves to burn	R2
Meantime the mountain billows to the clouds	E
In dreadful tumult swell'd surge above surge	L3
Burst into chaos with tremendous roar	T
And anchor'd navies from their stations drive	X
Wild as the winds across the howling waste	W2
Of mighty waters now the inflated wave	K3
Straining they scale and now impetuous shoot	W2
Into the secret chambers of the deep	Y2
The wintry Baltic thundering o'er their head	W2
Emerging thence again before the breath	M3
Of full exerted Heaven they wing their course	E
And dart on distant coasts if	N3

James Thomson

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