The Snows Of Spring Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDEDFEG HIIHIJKJLKL MNNNNIOIBOB APPAPIQIIQI RSSRSINIANA TGGTGBUBIUI IPPIPIIIVIVO wailing gust what hast thou brought with thee | A |
What sting of desolation But an hour | B |
And brave was every shy new opened flower | B |
Smiling in sun beneath a budding tree | A |
Now over black hills the skies stoop and lour | C |
Now on this lonely upland the shrill blast | D |
Thrusts under brown dead crumpled leaves to find | E |
Soft primroses that were unfolding fast | D |
Now the fair Spring cries through the shuddering wood | F |
Lamenting for her darlings to the wind | E |
That ravishes their youth with laughter rude | G |
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The whole air darkens sweeping up in storm | H |
What breath is this of what far power that slays | I |
What God in blank and towering cloud arrays | I |
His muffled else intolerable form | H |
What beautiful Medusa's frozen gaze | I |
Lo out of gloom the first flakes floating pale | J |
Lost like a dreamer's thoughts They shall lie deep | K |
To morrow on green shoot on petal frail | J |
And living branches borne down in despair | L |
By the mere weight of that soft nesting sleep | K |
Though all the earth look still and white and fair | L |
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Phantasmal and extreme as some blind plain | M |
Upon the far side of the moon unknown | N |
Deep Polar solitudes of ice enthrone | N |
In the white night of mountain and moraine | N |
The power of that cold Sleep that dwells alone | N |
Absolute in remotest idleness | I |
Yet from his fancied lips the freezing breath | O |
Wandering about the world's warm wilderness | I |
Has drifted on the north wind even hither | B |
These gently whispering syllables of death | O |
Among the English flowers our Spring to wither | B |
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Not only the brief tender flowers ah me | A |
Suffer such desolation but we too | P |
Who boast our godlike liberty to do | P |
Whate'er we will and range all climes ev'n we | A |
Must still abide its coming and our rue | P |
It breathes in viewless winds and gently falls | I |
Over our spirits till desire grown sere | Q |
Faith frozen into words custom like walls | I |
Of stone imprison us and we acquiesce | I |
More than the raging elements to fear | Q |
Is snow soft death that comes like a caress | I |
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Life lives for ever Death of her knows naught | R |
Our souls through radiant mystery are led | S |
Clothed in fresh raiment as the old is shed | S |
But Death the unchanging has no aim no thought | R |
Deaf blind indifferent feeds not yet is fed | S |
Moves not yet crushes is not rent yet rends | I |
For as from icebergs killing airs are blown | N |
His cold sleep to our life warm ardour sends | I |
Frost wreathing round us delicate as rime | A |
Making most real what should be dream alone | N |
To the free spirit the gnawing tooth of time | A |
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Who shall escape since death and life inweave | T |
Their threads so subtly Yet may truth be wooed | G |
In our own natures shaken off the brood | G |
Of thoughts not ours beliefs our lips believe | T |
But our hearts own not alien fortitude | G |
These are of death and with his realm conspire | B |
Faint souls that drowse in ignorance unjust | U |
That with the world corrupt their true desire | B |
And dully hate and stagnantly despise | I |
Already they begin to die to rust | U |
But those that love are always young and wise | I |
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O Love my Love the dear light of whose eyes | I |
Shines on the world to show me all things new | P |
Falsehood the falser and the true more true | P |
And tenfold precious all my soul must prize | I |
Since from our life's core love so deeply grew | P |
O let us cleave fast to the heavenly powers | I |
That brought us this whose unseen spirit flows | I |
Pure as the wind and sensitive as flowers | I |
They are with us Let the storm gathering night | V |
Cover the bleak earth with these whirling snows | I |
Our hands are joined our hearts are brimmed with light | V |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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