Spring Wind In London Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABAB CDCDCD EFEFEF GHGHGH IJIJIJ KLKLKL MNMNMO| I Blow across the stagnant world | A |
| I blow across the sea | B |
| For me the sailor's flag unfurled | A |
| For me the uprooted tree | B |
| My challenge to the world is hurled | A |
| The world must bow to me | B |
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| I drive the clouds across the sky | C |
| I huddle them like sheep | D |
| Merciless shepherd dog am I | C |
| And shepherd watch I keep | D |
| If in the quiet vales they lie | C |
| I blow them up the steep | D |
| - | |
| Lo In the tree tops do I hide | E |
| In every living thing | F |
| On the moon's yellow wings I glide | E |
| On the wild rose I swing | F |
| On the sea horse's back I ride | E |
| And what then do I bring | F |
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| And when a little child is ill | G |
| I pause and with my hand | H |
| I wave the window curtain's frill | G |
| That he may understand | H |
| Outside the wind is blowing still | G |
| It is a pleasant land | H |
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| O stranger in a foreign place | I |
| See what I bring to you | J |
| This rain is tears upon your face | I |
| I tell you tell you true | J |
| I came from that forgotten place | I |
| Where once the wattle grew | J |
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| All the wild sweetness of the flower | K |
| Tangled against the wall | L |
| It was that magic silent hour | K |
| The branches grew so tall | L |
| They twined themselves into a bower | K |
| The sun shown and the fall | L |
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| Of yellow blossom on the grass | M |
| You feel that golden rain | N |
| Both of you could not hold alas | M |
| both of you tried in vain | N |
| A memory stranger So I pass | M |
| It will not come again | O |
Katherine Mansfield
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