A Winter's Day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBACDDCEE| Across the hills and down the narrow ways | A |
| And up the valley where the free winds sweep | B |
| The earth is folded in an ermined sleep | B |
| That mocks the melting mirth of myriad Mays | A |
| Departed her disheartening duns and grays | A |
| And all her crusty black is covered deep | B |
| Dark streams are locked in Winter's donjon keep | B |
| And made to shine with keen unwonted rays | A |
| O icy mantle and deceitful snow | C |
| What world old liars in your hearts ye are | D |
| Are there not still the darkened seam and scar | D |
| Beneath the brightness that you fain would show | C |
| Come from the cover with thy blot and blur | E |
| O reeking Earth thou whited sepulchre | E |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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