A Winter Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CBCB DBDB EBEB FBFB GBGB HBHB IBIB| Came the dread Archer up yonder lawn | A |
| Night is the time for the old to die | B |
| But woe for an arrow that smote the fawn | A |
| When the hind that was sick unscathed went by | B |
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| Father lay moaning Her fault was sore | C |
| Night is the time when the old must die | B |
| Yet ah to bless her my child once more | C |
| For heart is failing the end is nigh | B |
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| Daughter my daughter my girl I cried | D |
| Night is the time for the old to die | B |
| Woe for the wish if till morn ye bide | D |
| Dark was the welkin and wild the sky | B |
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| Heavily plunged from the roof the snow | E |
| Night is the time when the old will die | B |
| She answered My mother 'tis well I go | E |
| Sparkled the north star the wrack flew high | B |
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| First at his head and last at his feet | F |
| Night is the time when the old should die | B |
| Kneeling I watched till his soul did fleet | F |
| None else that loved him none else were nigh | B |
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| I wept in the night as the desolate weep | G |
| Night is the time for the old to die | B |
| Cometh my daughter the drifts are deep | G |
| Across the cold hollows how white they lie | B |
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| I sought her afar through the spectral trees | H |
| Night is the time when the old must die | B |
| The fells were all muffled the floods did freeze | H |
| And a wrathful moon hung red in the sky | B |
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| By night I found her where pent waves steal | I |
| Night is the time when the old should die | B |
| But she lay stiff by the locked mill wheel | I |
| And the old stars lived in their homes on high | B |
Jean Ingelow
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