Anticipation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFGF HIHJ KEKG ALAL MNMN FOPQ LRLR STST BRBR| Windy the sky and mad | A |
| Surly the gray March day | B |
| Bleak the forests and sad | A |
| Sad for the beautiful May | B |
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| On maples tasseled with red | C |
| No blithe bird swinging sung | D |
| The brook in its lonely bed | C |
| Complained in an unknown tongue | D |
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| We walked in the wasted wood | E |
| Her face as the Spring's was fair | F |
| Her blood was the Spring's own blood | G |
| The Spring's her radiant hair | F |
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| And we found in the windy wild | H |
| One cowering violet | I |
| Like a frail and tremulous child | H |
| In the caked leaves bowed and wet | J |
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| And I sighed at the sight with pain | K |
| For the May's warm face in the wood | E |
| May's passions of sun and rain | K |
| May's raiment of bloom and of bud | G |
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| But she said when she saw me sad | A |
| Tho' the world be gloomy as fate | L |
| And we yearn for the days to be glad | A |
| Dear heart we can afford to wait | L |
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| For know one beautiful thing | M |
| On the dark day's bosom curled | N |
| Makes the wild day glad to sing | M |
| Content to smile at the world | N |
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| For the sinless world is fair | F |
| And man's is the sin and gloom | O |
| And dead are the days that were | P |
| But what are the days to come | Q |
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| Be happy dear heart and wait | L |
| For the past is a memory | R |
| Tho' to day seem somber as fate | L |
| Who knows what to morrow will be | R |
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| And the May came on in her charms | S |
| With a twinkle of rustling feet | T |
| Blooms stormed from her luminous arms | S |
| And honey of smiles that were sweet | T |
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| Now I think of her words that day | B |
| This day that I longed so to see | R |
| That finds her dead with the May | B |
| And the March but a memory | R |
Madison Julius Cawein
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