Snow Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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The three stood listening to a fresh access	A
Of wind that caught against the house a moment	B
Gulped snow and then blew free again the Coles	C
Dressed but dishevelled from some hours of sleep	D
Meserve belittled in the great skin coat he wore	E
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Meserve was first to speak He pointed backward	F
Over his shoulder with his pipe stem saying	G
You can just see it glancing off the roof	H
Making a great scroll upward toward the sky	I
Long enough for recording all our names on	J
I think I'll just call up my wife and tell her	K
I'm here so far and starting on again	L
I'll call her softly so that if she's wise	M
And gone to sleep she needn't wake to answer	K
Three times he barely stirred the bell then listened	N
Why Lett still up Lett I'm at Cole's I'm late	O
I called you up to say Good night from here	P
Before I went to say Good morning there	Q
I thought I would I know but Lett I know	R
I could but what's the sense The rest won't be	S
So bad Give me an hour for it Ho ho	R
Three hours to here But that was all up hill	T
The rest is down Why no no not a wallow	R
They kept their heads and took their time to it	U
Like darlings both of them They're in the barn	V
My dear I'm coming just the same I didn't	B
Call you to ask you to invite me home	W
He lingered for some word she wouldn't say	X
Said it at last himself Good night and then	L
Getting no answer closed the telephone	Y
The three stood in the lamplight round the table	Z
With lowered eyes a moment till he said	A2
I'll just see how the horses are	B2
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Yes do	C2
Both the Coles said together Mrs Cole	D2
Added You can judge better after seeing	G
I want you here with me Fred Leave him here	P
Brother Meserve You know to find your way	X
Out through the shed	A2
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I guess I know my way	X
I guess I know where I can find my name	E2
Carved in the shed to tell me who I am	F2
If it don't tell me where I am I used	G2
To play	X
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You tend your horses and come back	H2
Fred Cole you're going to let him	I2
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Well aren't you	C2
How can you help yourself	J2
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I called him Brother	K
Why did I call him that	K2
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It's right enough	L2
That's all you ever heard him called round here	P
He seems to have lost off his Christian name	E2
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Christian enough I should call that myself	J2
He took no notice did he Well at least	M2
I didn't use it out of love of him	I2
The dear knows I detest the thought of him	I2
With his ten children under ten years old	N2
I hate his wretched little Racker Sect	O2
All's ever I heard of it which isn't much	P2
But that's not saying Look Fred Cole it's twelve	Q2
Isn't it now He's been here half an hour	K
He says he left the village store at nine	R2
Three hours to do four miles a mile an hour	K
Or not much better Why it doesn't seem	S2
As if a man could move that slow and move	T2
Try to think what he did with all that time	U2
And three miles more to go	R
Don't let him go	R
Stick to him Helen Make him answer you	C2
That sort of man talks straight on all his life	V2
From the last thing he said himself stone deaf	W2
To anything anyone else may say	X
I should have thought though you could make him hear you	C2
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What is he doing out a night like this	X2
Why can't he stay at home	W
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He had to preach	Y2
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It's no night to be out	Z2
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He may be small	A3
He may be good but one thing's sure he's tough	L2
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And strong of stale tobacco	R
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He'll pull through '	-
You only say so Not another house	B3
Or shelter to put into from this place	C3
To theirs I'm going to call his wife again	L
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Wait and he may Let's see what he will do	C2
Let's see if he will think of her again	L
But then I doubt he's thinking of himself	J2
He doesn't look on it as anything	G
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He shan't go there	Q
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It is a night my dear	D3
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One thing he didn't drag God into it	U
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He don't consider it a case for God	E3
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You think so do you You don't know the kind	F3
He's getting up a miracle this minute	G3
Privately to himself right now he's thinking	G
He'll make a case of it if he succeeds	H3
But keep still if he fails	I3
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Keep still all over	K
He'll be dead dead and buried	J3
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Such a trouble	Z
Not but I've every reason not to care	Q
What happens to him if it only takes	K3
Some of the sanctimonious conceit	L3
Out of one of those pious scalawags	K3
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Nonsense to that You want to see him safe	M3
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You like the runt	L3
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Don't you a little	Z
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Well	N3
I don't like what he's doing which is what	L3
You like and like him for	E
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Oh yes you do	L3
You like your fun as well as anyone	O3
Only you women have to put these airs on	J
To impress men You've got us so ashamed	L3
Of being men we can't look at a good fight	L3
Between two boys and not feel bound to stop it	L3
Let the man freeze an ear or two I say	K3
He's here I leave him all to you Go in	P3
And save his life All right come in Meserve	Q3
Sit down sit down How did you find the horses	K3
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Fine fine	R2
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And ready for some more My wife here	P
Says it won't do You've got to give it up	R3
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Won't you to please me Please If I say please	K3
Mr Meserve I'll leave it to your wife	V2
What did your wife say on the telephone	Y
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Meserve seemed to heed nothing but the lamp	S3
Or something not far from it on the table	Z
By straightening out and lifting a forefinger	K
He pointed with his hand from where it lay	K3
Like a white crumpled spider on his knee	S
That leaf there in your open book It moved	L3
Just then I thought It's stood erect like that	L3
There on the table ever since I came	E2
Trying to turn itself backward or forward	L3
I've had my eye on it to make out which	T3
If forward then it's with a friend's impatience	K3
You see I know to get you on to things	K3
It wants to see how you will take if backward	L3
It's from regret for something you have passed	L3
And failed to see the good of Never mind	L3
Things must expect to come in front of us	K3
A many times I don't say just how many	S
That varies with the things before we see them	U3
One of the lies would make it out that nothing	G
Ever presents itself before us twice	K3
Where would we be at last if that were so	K3
Our very life depends on everything's	K3
Recurring till we answer from within	P3
The thousandth time may prove the charm That leaf	V3
It can't turn either way It needs the wind's help	W3
But the wind didn't move it if it moved	L3
It moved itself The wind's at naught in here	P
It couldn't stir so sensitively poised	L3
A thing as that It couldn't reach the lamp	S3
To get a puff of black smoke from the flame	E2
Or blow a rumple in the collie's coat	L3
You make a little foursquare block of air	Q
Quiet and light and warm in spite of all	A3
The illimitable dark and cold and storm	X3
And by so doing give these three lamp dog	Y3
And book leaf that keep near you their repose	K3
Though for all anyone can tell repose	K3
May be the thing you haven't yet you give it	L3
So false it is that what we haven't we can't give	Z3
So false that what we always say is true	L3
I'll have to turn the leaf if no one else will	T
It won't lie down Then let it stand Who cares	K3
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I shouldn't want to hurry you Meserve	Q3
But if you're going Say you'll stay you know	K3
But let me raise this curtain on a scene	A4
And show you how it's piling up against you	L3
You see the snow white through the white of frost	L3
Ask Helen how far up the sash it's climbed	L3
Since last we read the gage	B4
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It looks as if	C4
Some pallid thing had squashed its features flat	L3
And its eyes shut with overeagerness	K3
To see what people found so interesting	G
In one another and had gone to sleep	D
Of its own stupid lack of understanding	G
Or broken its white neck of mushroom stuff	L2
Short off and died against the window pane	D4
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Brother Meserve take care you'll scare yourself	J2
More than you will us with such nightmare talk	E4
It's you it matters to because it's you	L3
Who have to go out into it alone	Y
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Let him talk Helen and perhaps he'll stay	K3
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Before you drop the curtain I'm reminded	L3
You recollect the boy who came out here	P
To breathe the air one winter had a room	F4
Down at the Averys' Well one sunny morning	G
After a downy storm he passed our place	K3
And found me banking up the house with snow	K3
And I was burrowing in deep for warmth	G4
Piling it well above the window sills	K3
The snow against the window caught his eye	I
'Hey that's a pretty thought' those were his words	K3
'So you can think it's six feet deep outside	L3
While you sit warm and read up balanced rations	K3
You can't get too much winter in the winter '	-
Those were his words And he went home and all	A3
But banked the daylight out of Avery's windows	K3
Now you and I would go to no such length	H4
At the same time you can't deny it makes	K3
It not a mite worse sitting here we three	S
Playing our fancy to have the snowline run	O3
So high across the pane outside There where	Q
There is a sort of tunnel in the frost	L3
More like a tunnel than a hole way down	I4
At the far end of it you see a stir	K
And quiver like the frayed edge of the drift	L3
Blown in the wind I like that I like that	L3
Well now I leave you people	Z
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Come Meserve	Q3
We thought you were deciding not to go	K3
The ways you found to say the praise of comfort	L3
And being where you are You want to stay	K3
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I'll own it's cold for such a fall of snow	K3
This house is frozen brittle all except	L3
This room you sit in If you think the wind	L3
Sounds further off it's not because it's dying	G
You're further under in the snow that's all	A3
And feel it less Hear the soft bombs of dust	L3
It bursts against us at the chimney mouth	J4
And at the eaves I like it from inside	L3
More than I shall out in it But the horses	K3
Are rested and it's time to say good night	L3
And let you get to bed again Good night	L3
Sorry I had to break in on your sleep	D
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Lucky for you you did Lucky for you	L3
You had us for a half way station	O3
To stop at If you were the kind of man	K4
Paid heed to women you'd take my advice	K3
And for your family's sake stay where you are	B2
But what good is my saying it over and over	K
You've done more than you had a right to think	L4
You could do now You know the risk you take	M4
In going on	J
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Our snow storms as a rule	N4
Aren't looked on as man killers and although	K3
I'd rather be the beast that sleeps the sleep	D
Under it all his door sealed up and lost	L3
Than the man fighting it to keep above it	L3
Yet think of the small birds at roost and not	L3
In nests Shall I be counted less than they are	B2
Their bulk in water would be frozen rock	O4
In no time out to night And yet to morrow	K3
They will come budding boughs from tree to tree	S
Flirting their wings and saying Chickadee	L3
As if not knowing what you meant by the word storm	X3
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But why when no one wants you to go on	J
Your wife she doesn't want you to We don't	L3
And you yourself don't want to Who else is there	Q
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Save us from being cornered by a woman	O3
Well there's She told Fred afterward that in	P3
The pause right there she thought the dreaded word	L3
Was coming God But no he only said	L3
Well there's the storm That says I must go on	J
That wants me as a war might if it came	E2
Ask any man	K4
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He threw her that as something	G
To last her till he got outside the door	E
He had Cole with him to the barn to see him off	P4
When Cole returned he found his wife still standing	G
Beside the table near the open book	Q4
Not reading it	L3
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Well what kind of a man	K4
Do you call that she said	L3
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He had the gift	L3
Of words or is it tongues I ought to say	K3
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Was ever such a man for seeing likeness	K3
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Or disregarding people's civil questions	K3
What We've found out in one hour more about him	I2
Than we had seeing him pass by in the road	L3
A thousand times If that's the way he preaches	K3
You didn't think you'd keep him after all	A3
Oh I'm not blaming you He didn't leave you	L3
Much say in the matter and I'm just as glad	L3
We're not in for a night of him No sleep	D
If he had stayed The least thing set him going	G
It's quiet as an empty church without him	I2
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But how much better off are we as it is	K3
We'll have to sit here till we know he's safe	M3
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Yes I suppose you'll want to but I shouldn't	L3
He knows what he can do or he wouldn't try	I
Get into bed I say and get some rest	L3
He won't come back and if he telephones	K3
It won't be for an hour or two	L3
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Well then	L
We can't be any help by sitting here	P
And living his fight through with him I suppose	K3
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Cole had been telephoning in the dark	R4
Mrs Cole's voice came from an inner room	F4
Did she call you or you call her	K
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She me	S
You'd better dress you won't go back to bed	L3
We must have been asleep it's three and after	K
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Had she been ringing long I'll get my wrapper	K
I want to speak to her	K
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All she said was	K3
He hadn't come and had he really started	L3
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She knew he had poor thing two hours ago	K3
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He had the shovel He'll have made a fight	L3
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Why did I ever let him leave this house	K3
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Don't begin that You did the best you could	L3
To keep him though perhaps you didn't quite	L3
Conceal a wish to see him show the spunk	S4
To disobey you Much his wife'll thank you	L3
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Fred after all I said You shan't make out	L3
That it was any way but what it was	K3
Did she let on by any word she said	L3
She didn't thank me	S
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When I told her 'Gone '	-
'Well then ' she said and 'Well then' like a threat	L3
And then her voice came scraping slow 'Oh you	L3
Why did you let him go'	S4
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Asked why we let him	I2
You let me there I'll ask her why she let him	I2
She didn't dare to speak when he was here	P
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Their number's twenty one The thing won't work	S4
Someone's receiver's down The handle stumbles	K3
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The stubborn thing the way it jars your arm	T4
It's theirs She's dropped it from her hand and gone	U4
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Try speaking Say 'Hello'	A3
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Hello Hello	A3
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What do you hear	P
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I hear an empty room	F4
You know it sounds that way And yes I hear	P
I think I hear a clock and windows rattling	S4
No step though If she's there she's sitting down	I4
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Shout she may hear you	L3
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Shouting is no good	L3
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Keep speaking then	L
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Hello Hello Hello	A3
You don't suppose She wouldn't go out doors	K3
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I'm half afraid that's just what she might do	L3
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And leave the children	O3
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Wait and call again	L
You can't hear whether she has left the door	E
Wide open and the wind's blown out the lamp	S3
And the fire's died and the room's dark and cold	L3
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One of two things either she's gone to bed	L3
Or gone out doors	K3
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In which case both are lost	L3
Do you know what she's like Have you ever met her	K
It's strange she doesn't want to speak to us	K3
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Fred see if you can hear what I hear Come	V4
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A clock maybe	S
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Don't you hear something else	K3
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Not talking	S4
No	A3
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Why yes I hear what is it	L3
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What do you say it is	K3
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A baby's crying	S4
Frantic it sounds though muffled and far off	P4
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Its mother wouldn't let it cry like that	L3
Not if she's there	Q
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What do you make of it	L3
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There's only one thing possible to make	S4
That is assuming that she has gone out	L3
Of course she hasn't though They both sat down	I4
Helpless There's nothing we can do till morning	S4
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Fred I shan't let you think of going out	L3
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Hold on The double bell began to chirp	W4
They started up Fred took the telephone	Y
Hello Meserve You're there then And your wife	V2
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Good Why I asked she didn't seem to answer	K
He says she went to let him in the barn	V
We're glad Oh say no more about it man	K4
Drop in and see us when you're passing	S4
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Well	A3
She has him then though what she wants him for	E
I don't see	S
Possibly not for herself	J2
Maybe she only wants him for the children	O3
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The whole to do seems to have been for nothing	S4
What spoiled our night was to him just his fun	O3
What did he come in for To talk and visit	L3
Thought he'd just call to tell us it was snowing	S4
If he thinks he is going to make our house	K3
A halfway coffee house 'twixt town and nowhere	Q
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I thought you'd feel you'd been too much concerned	L3
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You think you haven't been concerned yourself	J2
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If you mean he was inconsiderate	L3
To rout us out to think for him at midnight	L3
And then take our advice no more than nothing	S4
Why I agree with you But let's forgive him	I2
We've had a share in one night of his life	V2
What'll you bet he ever calls again	L

Robert Frost

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