Spring Has Come Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BABA CDCD ABAB EFEF GHGH IJIJ ABA AAAA AAAA KLKL MNMN LALA MOMO PQCQ| INTRA MUROS | A |
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| THE sunbeams lost for half a year | B |
| Slant through my pane their morning rays | A |
| For dry northwesters cold and clear | B |
| The east blows in its thin blue haze | A |
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| And first the snowdrop's bells are seen | C |
| Then close against the sheltering wall | D |
| The tulip's horn of dusky green | C |
| The peony's dark unfolding ball | D |
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| The golden chaliced crocus burns | A |
| The long narcissus blades appear | B |
| The cone beaked hyacinth returns | A |
| To light her blue flamed chandelier | B |
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| The willow's whistling lashes wrung | E |
| By the wild winds of gusty March | F |
| With sallow leaflets lightly strung | E |
| Are swaying by the tufted larch | F |
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| The elms have robed their slender spray | G |
| With full blown flower and embryo leaf | H |
| Wide o'er the clasping arch of day | G |
| Soars like a cloud their hoary chief | H |
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| See the proud tulip's flaunting cup | I |
| That flames in glory for an hour | J |
| Behold it withering then look up | I |
| How meek the forest monarch's flower | J |
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| When wake the violets Winter dies | A |
| When sprout the elm buds Spring is near | B |
| When lilacs blossom Summer cries | A |
| 'Bud little roses Spring is here ' | - |
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| The windows blush with fresh bouquets | A |
| Cut with the May dew on their lips | A |
| The radish all its bloom displays | A |
| Pink as Aurora's finger tips | A |
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| Nor less the flood of light that showers | A |
| On beauty's changed corolla shades | A |
| The walks are gay as bridal bowers | A |
| With rows of many petalled maids | A |
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| The scarlet shell fish click and clash | K |
| In the blue barrow where they slide | L |
| The horseman proud of streak and splash | K |
| Creeps homeward from his morning ride | L |
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| Here comes the dealer's awkward string | M |
| With neck in rope and tail in knot | N |
| Rough colts with careless country swing | M |
| In lazy walk or slouching trot | N |
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| Wild filly from the mountain side | L |
| Doomed to the close and chafing thills | A |
| Lend me thy long untiring stride | L |
| To seek with thee thy western hills | A |
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| I hear the whispering voice of Spring | M |
| The thrush's trill the robin's cry | O |
| Like some poor bird with prisoned wing | M |
| That sits and sings but longs to fly | O |
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| Oh for one spot of living greed | P |
| One little spot where leaves can grow | Q |
| To love unblamed to walk unseen | C |
| To dream above to sleep below | Q |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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