Seasons Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCBCC D EEFGFG D HHIJIJJ H KKLHLH| I heard the forest's green heart beat | A |
| As if it heard the happy feet | A |
| Of one who came like young Desire | B |
| At whose fair coming birds and flowers | C |
| Sprang up and Beauty filled with fire | B |
| Touched lips with Song amid the bowers | C |
| And Love led on the dancing Hours | C |
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| II | D |
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| And then I heard a voice that rang | E |
| And to the leaves and blossoms sang | E |
| 'My child is Life I dwell with Truth | F |
| I am the Spirit glad of Birth | G |
| I bring to all things joy and youth | F |
| I am the rapture of the Earth | G |
| Come look on me and know my worth ' | - |
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| III | D |
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| And then the woodland heaved a sigh | H |
| As if it saw a shape go by | H |
| A shape of sorrow or of dread | I |
| That seemed to move as moves a mist | J |
| And left the leaves and flowers dead | I |
| And with cold lips my forehead kissed | J |
| While phantoms all around held tryst | J |
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| IV | H |
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| And then I heard a voice that spoke | K |
| Unto the fading beech and oak | K |
| 'I am the Spirit of Decay | L |
| Whose child is Death that means relief | H |
| I breathe and all things pass away | L |
| I am Earth's glory and its grief | H |
| Come look on me thy time is brief ' | - |
Madison Julius Cawein
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