A Song Of The Snow Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEEAA AAFFGGHIAA AAJJKKLLAA AAMMAANNAA| Oh the snow the bright fleecy snow | A |
| Isn't it grand when the north breezes blow | A |
| Isn't it bracing the ice to skim o'er | B |
| With a jovial friend or the one you adore | C |
| How the ice crackles and how the skates ring | D |
| How friends flit past you like birds on the wing | D |
| How the gay laugh ripples through the clear air | E |
| How bloom the roses on cheeks of the fair | E |
| Few are the pleasures that life can bestow | A |
| To equal the charms of the beautiful snow | A |
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| Oh the snow the pitiless snow | A |
| Cruel and cold as the shelterless know | A |
| Huddled in nooks on the mud or the flags | F |
| Wrapp'd in a few scanty fluttering rags | F |
| Gently it rests on the roof and the spire | G |
| And filling the streets with its slush and the mire | G |
| Freezing the life out of poor starving souls | H |
| Wild whirling and drifting as Boreas howls | I |
| Hard is their lot who have no where to go | A |
| To shelter from storm and the merciless snow | A |
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| Oh the snow the treacherous snow | A |
| Up in a garret on pallet laid low | A |
| Dying of hunger oh sad is her fate | J |
| No food in the cupboard no fire in the grate | J |
| A widening streak of frost crystals are shed | K |
| Through the window's broke pane on the comfortless bed | K |
| And the child that she clasps to her chill milkless breast | L |
| Has ended its troubles and gone to its rest | L |
| Husbandless childless and friendless Go slow | A |
| She sleeps with her babe and their shroud is the snow | A |
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| Oh the snow the health giving snow | A |
| Setting the cheeks of the children aglow | A |
| Father and mother well fed and well clad | M |
| Join in the frolic like young lass and lad | M |
| Little they dream of the suffering and woe | A |
| Of those shivering outcasts with nowhere to go | A |
| Then they read from their paper with quivering breath | N |
| Accounts of poor wand'rers found frozen to death | N |
| And their hearts with pure pity perchance overflow | A |
| But it vanishes soon like the beautiful snow | A |
John Hartley
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