The Winter's Come Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBCC DEDEFCFGH IJIJJKJKK| Sweet chestnuts brown like soling leather turn | A |
| The larch trees like the colour of the Sun | B |
| That paled sky in the Autumn seemed to burn | A |
| What a strange scene before us now does run | B |
| Red brown and yellow russet black and dun | B |
| White thorn wild cherry and the poplar bare | C |
| The sycamore all withered in the sun | B |
| No leaves are now upon the birch tree there | C |
| All now is stript to the cold wintry air | C |
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| See not one tree but what has lost its leaves | D |
| And yet the landscape wears a pleasing hue | E |
| The winter chill on his cold bed receives | D |
| Foliage which once hung oer the waters blue | E |
| Naked and bare the leafless trees repose | F |
| Blue headed titmouse now seeks maggots rare | C |
| Sluggish and dull the leaf strewn river flows | F |
| That is not green which was so through the year | G |
| Dark chill November draweth to a close | H |
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| Tis Winter and I love to read indoors | I |
| When the Moon hangs her crescent up on high | J |
| While on the window shutters the wind roars | I |
| And storms like furies pass remorseless by | J |
| How pleasant on a feather bed to lie | J |
| Or sitting by the fire in fancy soar | K |
| With Dante or with Milton to regions high | J |
| Or read fresh volumes we've not seen before | K |
| Or oer old Burton's Melancholy pore | K |
John Clare
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