April Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIBJ KKLLMMMNOPPQQ| 'T is the noon of the spring time yet never a bird | A |
| In the wind shaken elm or the maple is heard | A |
| For green meadow grasses wide levels of snow | B |
| And blowing of drifts where the crocus should blow | B |
| Where wind flower and violet amber and white | C |
| On south sloping brooksides should smile in the light | C |
| O'er the cold winter beds of their late waking roots | D |
| The frosty flake eddies the ice crystal shoots | D |
| And longing for light under wind driven heaps | E |
| Round the boles of the pine wood the ground laurel creeps | E |
| Unkissed of the sunshine unbaptized of showers | F |
| With buds scarcely swelled which should burst into flowers | F |
| We wait for thy coming sweet wind of the south | G |
| For the touch of thy light wings the kiss of thy mouth | G |
| For the yearly evangel thou bearest from God | H |
| Resurrection and life to the graves of the sod | H |
| Up our long river valley for days have not ceased | I |
| The wail and the shriek of the bitter northeast | I |
| Raw and chill as if winnowed through ices and snow | B |
| All the way from the land of the wild Esquimau | J |
| Until all our dreams of the land of the blest | K |
| Like that red hunter's turn to the sunny southwest | K |
| O soul of the spring time its light and its breath | L |
| Bring warmth to this coldness bring life to this death | L |
| Renew the great miracle let us behold | M |
| The stone from the mouth of the sepulchre rolled | M |
| And Nature like Lazarus rise as of old | M |
| Let our faith which in darkness and coldness has lain | N |
| Revive with the warmth and the brightness again | O |
| And in blooming of flower and budding of tree | P |
| The symbols and types of our destiny see | P |
| The life of the spring time the life of the whole | Q |
| And as sun to the sleeping earth love to the soul | Q |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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