Winter Remembered Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EBEB FBFB GDGD| Two evils monstrous either one apart | A |
| Possessed me and were long and loath at going | B |
| A cry of Absence Absence in the heart | A |
| And in the wood the furious winter blowing | B |
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| Think not when fire was bright upon my bricks | C |
| And past the tight boards hardly a wind could enter | D |
| I glowed like them the simple burning sticks | C |
| Far from my cause my proper heat and center | D |
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| Better to walk forth in the frozen air | E |
| And wash my wound in the snows that would be healing | B |
| Because my heart would throb less painful there | E |
| Being caked with cold and past the smart of feeling | B |
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| And where I walked the murderous winter blast | F |
| Would have this body bowed these eyeballs streaming | B |
| And though I think this heart's blood froze not fast | F |
| It ran too small to spare one drop for dreaming | B |
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| Dear love these fingers that had known your touch | G |
| And tied our separate forces first together | D |
| Were ten poor idiot fingers not worth much | G |
| Ten frozen parsnips hanging in the weather | D |
John Crowe Ransom
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