The Unloosening Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEEF GHAH GIJK LMEM NBOB DPQP DRAR ASTS GUAU AVWV ARWR| Winter was weary All his snows were failing | A |
| Still from his stiff grey head he shook the rime | B |
| Upon the grasses bushes and broad hedges | C |
| But all was lost in the new touch of Time | B |
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| And the bright glob egrave d hedges were all ruddy | D |
| As though warm sunset glowed perpetual | E |
| The myriad swinging tassels of first hazel | E |
| From purple to pale gold were swinging all | F |
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| In the soft wind no more afraid of Winter | G |
| Nor chaffinch wren nor lark was now afraid | H |
| And Winter heard or ears too hard of hearing | A |
| Snuffed the South West that in his cold hair played | H |
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| And his hands trembled Then with voice a quaver | G |
| He called the East Wind and the black East ran | I |
| Roofing the sky with iron and in the darkness | J |
| Winter crept out and chilled the earth again | K |
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| And while men slept the still pools were frozen | L |
| Mosses were white with ice the long grasses bowed | M |
| The hawthorn buds and the greening honeysuckle | E |
| Froze and the birds were dumb under that cloud | M |
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| And men and beasts were dulled and children even | N |
| Less merry under that low iron dome | B |
| Early the patient rooks and starlings gathered | O |
| Any warm narrow place for men was home | B |
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| And Winter laughed but the third night grew weary | D |
| And slept all heavy till the East Wind thought him dead | P |
| Then the returning South West in his nostrils | Q |
| Breathed and his snows melted And his head | P |
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| Uplifting he saw all the laughing valley | D |
| Heard the unloosened waters leaping down | R |
| Broadening over the meadows saw the sun running | A |
| From hill to hill and glittering upon the town | R |
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| All day he stared But his head drooped at evening | A |
| Bent and slow he stumbled into the white | S |
| Cavern of a great chalk hill hedged with tall bushes | T |
| And in its darkness found a darker night | S |
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| Among the broken cliff and falling water | G |
| Freezing or falling quietly everywhere | U |
| Locked in a long long sleep his brain undreaming | A |
| With only water moving anywhere | U |
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| Old men at night dreamed that they saw him going | A |
| And looked and dared not look lest he should turn | V |
| And young men felt the air beating on their bodies | W |
| And the young women woke from dreams that burn | V |
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| And children going through the fields at morning | A |
| Saw the unloosened waters leaping down | R |
| And broke the hazel boughs and wore the tassels | W |
| Above their eyes a pale and shaking crown | R |
John Freeman
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