Last Hours Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIB JKLK| A gray day and quiet | A |
| With slow clouds of gray | B |
| And in dull air a cloud that falls falls | C |
| All day | B |
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| The naked and stiff branches | D |
| Of oak elm thorn | E |
| In the cold light are like men aged and | F |
| Forlorn | E |
| - | |
| Only a gray sky | G |
| Grass trees grass again | H |
| And all the air a cloud that drips drips | I |
| All day | B |
| - | |
| Lovely the lonely | J |
| Bare trees and green grass | K |
| Lovelier now the last hours of slow winter | L |
| Slowly pass | K |
John Freeman
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Carol Hill: John Freeman wrote about nature. Last Hours of slow winter are now almost past here in northeast Missouri. This cold wet season has its beauty, and John Freeman expressed it beautifully.
vafuchs: One of my favorite poems, especially in the haunting setting by the composer, John Ireland.
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