Spring Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFGFHIHI JKJKLDLD| The sides of the hill were brown but violet buds had started | A |
| In gray and hidden nooks o'erhung by feathery ferns and heather | B |
| And a bird in an April morn was never lighter hearted | A |
| Than the pilot swallow we saw convoying sunny weather | B |
| And sunshine golden and gay voiced singing birds into the land | C |
| And this was the song the clear shrill song of the swallow | D |
| That it carolled back to the southern sun and his brown winged band | C |
| Clear it arose Oh follow me come and follow and follow | D |
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| A tender story was in his eyes he wished to tell me I knew | E |
| As he stood in the happy morn by my side at the garden gate | F |
| But I fancy the tall rose branches that bent and touched his brow | G |
| Were whispering to him Wait impatient heart oh wait | F |
| Before the bloom of the rose is the tender green of the leaf | H |
| Not rash is he who wisely followeth patient Nature's ways | I |
| The lily bud of love should be swathed in a silken sheaf | H |
| Unfolding at will to summer bloom in the warm and perfect days | I |
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| So silently sailed the early sun through clouds of fleecy white | J |
| So stood we in dreamy silence enwrapped in a tender spell | K |
| But the pulses of soft Spring air were quickened to fresh delight | J |
| For I read in his eye the story sweet he longed yet feared to tell | K |
| It spoke from his heart to mine and needed no word from his mouth | L |
| And high o'er our heads rang out the happy song of the swallow | D |
| It cried to the sunshine and beauty and bloom of the South | L |
| Exultingly carolling clear Oh follow me oh follow | D |
Marietta Holley
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