The Winter's Spring Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEBB FGCGBB HBHBGG IJKBBB| The winter comes I walk alone | A |
| I want no bird to sing | B |
| To those who keep their hearts their own | A |
| The winter is the spring | B |
| No flowers to please no bees to hum | C |
| The coming spring's already come | C |
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| I never want the Christmas rose | D |
| To come before its time | E |
| The seasons each as God bestows | D |
| Are simple and sublime | E |
| I love to see the snowstorm hing | B |
| 'Tis but the winter garb of spring | B |
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| I never want the grass to bloom | F |
| The snowstorm's best in white | G |
| I love to see the tempest come | C |
| And love its piercing light | G |
| The dazzled eyes that love to cling | B |
| O'er snow white meadows sees the spring | B |
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| I love the snow the crumpling snow | H |
| That hangs on everything | B |
| It covers everything below | H |
| Like white dove's brooding wing | B |
| A landscape to the aching sight | G |
| A vast expanse of dazzling light | G |
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| It is the foliage of the woods | I |
| That winters bring the dress | J |
| White Easter of the year in bud | K |
| That makes the winter Spring | B |
| The frost and snow his posies bring | B |
| Nature's white spurts of the spring | B |
John Clare
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