Flowers In Winter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDF GFGF HIHI JKJK LMLM NONO PQPQ PRPR PPPP BSBS PPPP RGRG TFTF UTUT TFTF VPWP| How strange to greet this frosty morn | A |
| In graceful counterfeit of flower | B |
| These children of the meadows born | A |
| Of sunshine and of showers | C |
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| How well the conscious wood retains | D |
| The pictures of its flower sown home | E |
| The lights and shades the purple stains | D |
| And golden hues of bloom | F |
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| It was a happy thought to bring | G |
| To the dark season's frost and rime | F |
| This painted memory of spring | G |
| This dream of summertime | F |
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| Our hearts are lighter for its sake | H |
| Our fancy's age renews its youth | I |
| And dim remembered fictions take | H |
| The guise of present truth | I |
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| A wizard of the Merrimac | J |
| So old ancestral legends say | K |
| Could call green leaf and blossom back | J |
| To frosted stem and spray | K |
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| The dry logs of the cottage wall | L |
| Beneath his touch put out their leaves | M |
| The clay bound swallow at his call | L |
| Played round the icy eaves | M |
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| The settler saw his oaken flail | N |
| Take bud and bloom before his eyes | O |
| From frozen pools he saw the pale | N |
| Sweet summer lilies rise | O |
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| To their old homes by man profaned | P |
| Came the sad dryads exiled long | Q |
| And through their leafy tongues complained | P |
| Of household use and wrong | Q |
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| The beechen platter sprouted wild | P |
| The pipkin wore its old time green | R |
| The cradle o'er the sleeping child | P |
| Became a leafy screen | R |
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| Haply our gentle friend hath met | P |
| While wandering in her sylvan quest | P |
| Haunting his native woodlands yet | P |
| That Druid of the West | P |
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| And while the dew on leaf and flower | B |
| Glistened in the moonlight clear and still | S |
| Learned the dusk wizard's spell of power | B |
| And caught his trick of skill | S |
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| But welcome be it new or old | P |
| The gift which makes the day more bright | P |
| And paints upon the ground of cold | P |
| And darkness warmth and light | P |
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| Without is neither gold nor green | R |
| Within for birds the birch logs sing | G |
| Yet summer like we sit between | R |
| The autumn and the spring | G |
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| The one with bridal blush of rose | T |
| And sweetest breath of woodland balm | F |
| And one whose matron lips unclose | T |
| In smiles of saintly calm | F |
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| Fill soft and deep O winter snow | U |
| The sweet azalea's oaken dells | T |
| And hide the banks where roses blow | U |
| And swing the azure bells | T |
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| O'erlay the amber violet's leaves | T |
| The purple aster's brookside home | F |
| Guard all the flowers her pencil gives | T |
| A live beyond their bloom | F |
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| And she when spring comes round again | V |
| By greening slope and singing flood | P |
| Shall wander seeking not in vain | W |
| Her darlings of the wood | P |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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