A Winter's Day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJDJ KLKL| Into my garden sweet and fair | A |
| Brightly the sun at noonday shines | B |
| Melting the frost from the wintry air | A |
| Warming the trellis of leafless vines | B |
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| Basking there in the genial heat | C |
| South of my sheltering vineyard wall | D |
| Strolling I dream in my lov'd retreat | C |
| The smile of the sun god over all | D |
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| Far too early a shadow dark | E |
| Cast by the neighboring mountain's crest | F |
| Stealthily creeps across the park | E |
| Bringing a chill from the sombre west | F |
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| Little by little my sunlit space | G |
| Shrinks to a narrowing path of light | H |
| Further and further with dread I trace | G |
| The sure advance of approaching night | H |
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| Soon will arrive its twilight pall | I |
| Then as the potent change is felt | J |
| The fountain's drops will cease to fall | D |
| And feathery films refuse to melt | J |
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| But still in the solar warmth I wait | K |
| The hand of my lov'd one clasped in mine | L |
| Is that a tear It is growing late | K |
| And she asks how long the sun will shine | L |
John L. Stoddard
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