A Winter Day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEEFF A AAGGHHIICC A JJKKLLMMNNI | A |
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The air is silent save where stirs | B |
A bugling breeze among the firs | B |
The virgin world in white array | C |
Waits for the bridegroom kiss of day | C |
All heaven blooms rarely in the east | D |
Where skies are silvery and fleeced | D |
And o'er the orient hills made glad | E |
The morning comes in wonder clad | E |
Oh 'tis a time most fit to see | F |
How beautiful the dawn can be | F |
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II | A |
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Wide sparkling fields snow vestured lie | A |
Beneath a blue unshadowed sky | A |
A glistening splendor crowns the woods | G |
And bosky whistling solitudes | G |
In hemlock glen and reedy mere | H |
The tang of frost is sharp and clear | H |
Life hath a jollity and zest | I |
A poignancy made manifest | I |
Laughter and courage have their way | C |
At noontide of a winter's day | C |
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III | A |
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Faint music rings in wold and dell | J |
The tinkling of a distant bell | J |
Where homestead lights with friendly glow | K |
Glimmer across the drifted snow | K |
Beyond a valley dim and far | L |
Lit by an occidental star | L |
Tall pines the marge of day beset | M |
Like many a slender minaret | M |
Whence priest like winds on crystal air | N |
Summon the reverent world to prayer | N |
Lucy Maud Montgomery
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