Frost In May Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBA CCDDE FFGHF IIJJK LLMML NNOON PPQQP| March set heel upon the flowers | A |
| Trod and trampled them for hours | A |
| But when April's bugles rang | B |
| Up their starry legions sprang | B |
| Radiant in the sun shot showers | A |
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| April went her frolic ways | C |
| Arm in arm with happy days | C |
| Then from hills that rim the west | D |
| Bare of head and bare of breast | D |
| May the maiden showed her face | E |
| - | |
| Then it seemed again returned | F |
| March the iron heeled who turned | F |
| From his northward path and caught | G |
| May about the waist who fought | H |
| And his fierce advances spurned | F |
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| What her strength and her disdain | I |
| To the madness in his brain | I |
| He must kiss her though he kill | J |
| Then when he had had his will | J |
| Go his roaring way again | K |
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| Icy grew her finger tips | L |
| And the wild rose of her lips | L |
| Paled with frost then loud he laughed | M |
| Left her like a moonbeam shaft | M |
| Shattered where the forest drips | L |
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| Mourn for her O honey bees | N |
| Mourn O buds upon the trees | N |
| Birds and blossoms mourn for May | O |
| Mourn for her then come away | O |
| Leave her where her flowers freeze | N |
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| Leave her Nothing more may save | P |
| Leave her in her wildwood grave | P |
| Nothing now will waken her | Q |
| Loved and lost and lovelier | Q |
| For the kiss that wild March gave | P |
Madison Julius Cawein
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