The Great May Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACCACA DEDFGDFD HIHIIHIJ KAKAAKAK| Who said the Spring was dead | A |
| She would not come again | B |
| Dust on her starry head | A |
| For a sad world in pain | C |
| The thing they have said in vain | C |
| She comes new garlanded | A |
| Lovely on hill and plain | C |
| Her lights her flowers are shed | A |
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| Never was such a May | D |
| Mercy of God to prove | E |
| Life springs from the clay | D |
| And every treasured love | F |
| Walks in a heavenly grove | G |
| The Lord God's holiday | D |
| To the soft coo of the dove | F |
| With the young lambs at play | D |
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| Lo yours and yours are there | H |
| I see them leap and run | I |
| In a May world past compare | H |
| Whereof our God is sun | I |
| They rejoice yea every one | I |
| In the ambient light and air | H |
| Their pleasures are not done | I |
| From morn till evening star | J |
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| Never was such a Spring | K |
| Oh you whose eyes are wet | A |
| Listen take comforting | K |
| Our God does not forget | A |
| Poor folk that fear and fret | A |
| Your hours are on the wing | K |
| To the loves that wait you yet | A |
| Raised up and triumphing | K |
Katharine Tynan
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