Winter Magic Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABAB CDCDCD EFEFEE EEEEEE EGEGEG HIJIJI| Winter that hath few friends yet numbers those | A |
| Of spirit erect and delicate of eye | B |
| All may applaud sweet Summer with her rose | A |
| And Autumn with her banners in the sky | B |
| But when from the earth's cheek the colour goes | A |
| Her old adorers from her presence fly | B |
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| So cold her bosom seems such icy glare | C |
| Is in her eyes while on the frozen mere | D |
| The shrill ice creaks in the congealing air | C |
| Where is the lover that shall call her dear | D |
| Or the devotion that shall find her fair | C |
| The white robed widow of the vanished year | D |
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| Yet hath she loveliness and many flowers | E |
| Dreams hath she too and tender reveries | F |
| Tranced mid the rainbows of her gleaming bowers | E |
| Or the hushed temples of her pillared trees | F |
| Summer has scarce such soft and silent hours | E |
| Autumn has no such antic wizardries | E |
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| Yea he that takes her to his bosom knows | E |
| Lost in the magic crystal of her eyes | E |
| Upon her vestal cheek a fairer rose | E |
| What rapture and what passionate surprise | E |
| Awaits his kiss beneath her mask of snows | E |
| And what strange fire beneath her pallor lies | E |
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| Beauty is hers all unconfused of sense | E |
| Lustral austere and of the spirit fine | G |
| No cloudy fumes of myrrh and frankincense | E |
| Drug in her arms the ecstasy divine | G |
| But stellar awe that kneels in high suspense | E |
| And hallowed glories of the inner shrine | G |
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| And for the idle summer in our blood | H |
| Pleasures hath she of rapid tingling joy | I |
| With ruddy laughter 'neath her frozen hood | J |
| Purging our mortal metal of alloy | I |
| Stern benefactress of beatitude | J |
| Turning our leaden age to girl and boy | I |
Richard Le Gallienne
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