The Sad Spring Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FGFH IJIJ KLKL MNMO PQPQThe 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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