Waiting For Spring Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGFG HIHI JKJK LMLM NONO PQPQ| Though cloudy skies and northern blasts | A |
| Retard the gentle spring awhile | B |
| The sun will conqu'ror prove at last | C |
| And nature wear a vernal smile | B |
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| The promise which from age to age | D |
| Has brought the changing seasons round | E |
| Again shall calm the winter's rage | D |
| Perfume the air and paint the ground | E |
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| The virtue of that first command | F |
| I know still does and will prevail | G |
| That while the earth itself shall stand | F |
| The spring and summer shall not fail | G |
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| Such changes are for us decreed | H |
| Believers have their winters too | I |
| But spring shall certainly succeed | H |
| And all their former life renew | I |
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| Winter and spring have each their use | J |
| And each in turn his people know | K |
| One kills the weeds their hearts produce | J |
| The other makes their graces grow | K |
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| Though like dead trees awhile they seem | L |
| Yet having life within their root | M |
| The welcome spring's reviving beam | L |
| Draws forth their blossoms leaves and fruit | M |
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| But if the tree indeed be dead | N |
| It feels no change though spring return | O |
| Its leafless naked barren head | N |
| Proclaims it only fit to burn | O |
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| Dear Lord afford our souls a spring | P |
| Thou know'st our winter has been long | Q |
| Shine forth and warm our hearts to sing | P |
| And thy rich grace shall be our song | Q |
John Newton
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Dr. Bob Griffin: Loving the topic and application as gloomy weather (outside and in my rapidly-aging heart) persists and Spring seems far away, this was very, very needed.
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