Spring Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE DFGHIJKL MNODPQORS TUSVWX YAZ DA2I B2DC2TD D2E2| A spring wind on the Bowery | A |
| Blowing the fluff of night shelters | B |
| Off bedraggled garments | C |
| And agitating the gutters that eject little spirals of vapor | D |
| Like lewd growths | E |
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| Bare legged children stamp in the puddles splashing each other | D |
| One with a choir boy's face | F |
| Twits me as I pass | G |
| The word like a muddied drop | H |
| Seems to roll over and not out of | I |
| The bowed lips | J |
| Yet dewy red | K |
| And sweetly immature | L |
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| People sniff the air with an upward look | M |
| Even the mite of a girl | N |
| Who never plays | O |
| Her mother smiles at her | D |
| With eyes like vacant lots | P |
| Rimming vistas of mean streets | Q |
| And endless washing days | O |
| Yet with sun on the lines | R |
| And a drying breeze | S |
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| The old candy woman | T |
| Shivers in the young wind | U |
| Her eyes littered with memories | S |
| Like ancient garrets | V |
| Or dusty unaired rooms where someone died | W |
| Ask nothing of the spring | X |
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| But a pale pink dream | Y |
| Trembles about this young girl's body | A |
| Draping it like a glowing aura | Z |
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| She gloats in a mirror | D |
| Over her gaudy hat | A2 |
| With its flower God never thought of | I |
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| And the dream unrestrained | B2 |
| Floats about the loins of a soldier | D |
| Where it quivers a moment | C2 |
| Warming to a crimson | T |
| Like the scarf of a toreador | D |
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| But the delicate gossamer breaks at his contact | D2 |
| And recoils to her in strands of shattered rose | E2 |
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