The Onset Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCDDEEE FFGGHHIIJJKK| now lets down as white | A |
| As may be in dark woods and with a song | B |
| It shall not make again all winter long | B |
| Of hissing on the yet uncovered ground | C |
| I almost stumble looking up and round | C |
| As one who overtaken by the end | D |
| Gives up his errand and lets death descend | D |
| Upon him where he is with nothing done | E |
| To evil no important triumph won | E |
| More than if life had never been begun | E |
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| Yet all the precedent is on my side | F |
| I know that winter death has never tried | F |
| The earth but it has failed the snow may heap | G |
| In long storms an undrifted four feet deep | G |
| As measured against maple birch and oak | H |
| It cannot check the peeper's silver croak | H |
| And I shall see the snow all go down hill | I |
| In water of a slender April rill | I |
| That flashes tail through last year's withered brake | J |
| And dead weeds like a disappearing snake | J |
| Nothing will be left white but here a birch | K |
| And there a clump of houses with a church | K |
Robert Frost
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