Spring Has Come Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BABA CDCD ABAB EFEF GHGH IJIJ ABA AAAA AAAA KLKL MNMN LALA MOMO PQCQINTRA 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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