Farewell Frost, Or Welcome Spring Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEEFFGGFFGGHHII GG| Fled are the frosts and now the fields appear | A |
| Reclothed in fresh and verdant diaper | B |
| Thaw'd are the snows and now the lusty Spring | C |
| Gives to each mead a neat enamelling | C |
| The palms put forth their gems and every tree | D |
| Now swaggers in her leafy gallantry | D |
| The while the Daulian minstrel sweetly sings | E |
| With warbling notes her Terean sufferings | E |
| What gentle winds perspire as if here | F |
| Never had been the northern plunderer | F |
| To strip the trees and fields to their distress | G |
| Leaving them to a pitied nakedness | G |
| And look how when a frantic storm doth tear | F |
| A stubborn oak or holm long growing there | F |
| But lull'd to calmness then succeeds a breeze | G |
| That scarcely stirs the nodding leaves of trees | G |
| So when this war which tempest like doth spoil | H |
| Our salt our corn our honey wine and oil | H |
| Falls to a temper and doth mildly cast | I |
| His inconsiderate frenzy off at last | I |
| The gentle dove may when these turmoils cease | G |
| Bring in her bill once more the branch of Peace | G |
Robert Herrick
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