The Sad Spring Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FGFH IJIJ KLKL MNMO PQPQ| The Spring weeps she is forlorn | A |
| Well that she may weep alas | B |
| Now that many babes are born | A |
| Whose dear fathers lie in grass | B |
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| Snowdrops in the frozen earth | C |
| Faint and are not comforted | D |
| Never was so sad a birth | C |
| Never was so sad a bed | E |
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| She must bear her pangs alone | F |
| Where is sorrow like to hers | G |
| In an anguish cold as stone | F |
| Her dead soldier's child she bears | H |
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| Now her trembling arms will hold | I |
| Close the piteous downy thing | J |
| To a milky breast as cold | I |
| As the frozen water spring | J |
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| Now she hopes and dreads to find | K |
| Likeness in the little son | L |
| To his father brave and kind | K |
| Like or not her heart's undone | L |
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| Tender nurslings born in pain | M |
| Mother's comfort mother's grief | N |
| When her tears run down like rain | M |
| Lord bring Thou a handkerchief | O |
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| Wipe the widow's tears away | P |
| Father orphan boys and girls | Q |
| Lead them out where they may play | P |
| With Thy hand upon their curls | Q |
Katharine Tynan
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