Winter Days Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDBECE FGHGIGJIK LMNMNMOP| 'These winter days ' my father says | A |
| 'When mornings blow and bite and freeze | B |
| And hens sit cackling in the straw | C |
| Stiff with the frost as gates that wheeze | B |
| Remind me of my youth when raw | D |
| The day broke and beneath the trees | B |
| Wild winds would twist | E |
| I went to work with axe and saw | C |
| Or stopped to blow my mittened fist | E |
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| 'These winter noons ' my father croons | F |
| 'When eggs the hens have hardly laid | G |
| Crack open with the cold and cows | H |
| Drink through the hole a heel has made | G |
| Some rustic in his huddled blouse | I |
| Bring back the noons when with a spade | G |
| Down on the farm | J |
| I pathed the snow from barn to house | I |
| And beat my arms to keep me warm | K |
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| 'These winter nights ' so he recites | L |
| 'With those old nights are right in tune | M |
| When cocks crew out the hours till dawn | N |
| And all night long the owlet's croon | M |
| Quavered and quivered far withdrawn | N |
| And cold beneath the freezing moon | M |
| The old fox hound | O |
| Bayed where the icicles glittered wan | P |
| And all the old house slumbered sound ' | - |
Madison Julius Cawein
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