The Snows Of Spring Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDEDFEG HIIHIJKJLKL MNNNNIOIBOB APPAPIQIIQI RSSRSINIANA TGGTGBUBIUI IPPIPIIIVIV

O wailing gust what hast thou brought with theeA
What sting of desolation But an hourB
And brave was every shy new opened flowerB
Smiling in sun beneath a budding treeA
Now over black hills the skies stoop and lourC
Now on this lonely upland the shrill blastD
Thrusts under brown dead crumpled leaves to findE
Soft primroses that were unfolding fastD
Now the fair Spring cries through the shuddering woodF
Lamenting for her darlings to the windE
That ravishes their youth with laughter rudeG
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The whole air darkens sweeping up in stormH
What breath is this of what far power that slaysI
What God in blank and towering cloud arraysI
His muffled else intolerable formH
What beautiful Medusa's frozen gazeI
Lo out of gloom the first flakes floating paleJ
Lost like a dreamer's thoughts They shall lie deepK
To morrow on green shoot on petal frailJ
And living branches borne down in despairL
By the mere weight of that soft nesting sleepK
Though all the earth look still and white and fairL
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Phantasmal and extreme as some blind plainM
Upon the far side of the moon unknownN
Deep Polar solitudes of ice enthroneN
In the white night of mountain and moraineN
The power of that cold Sleep that dwells aloneN
Absolute in remotest idlenessI
Yet from his fancied lips the freezing breathO
Wandering about the world's warm wildernessI
Has drifted on the north wind even hitherB
These gently whispering syllables of deathO
Among the English flowers our Spring to witherB
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Not only the brief tender flowers ah meA
Suffer such desolation but we tooP
Who boast our godlike liberty to doP
Whate'er we will and range all climes ev'n weA
Must still abide its coming and our rueP
It breathes in viewless winds and gently fallsI
Over our spirits till desire grown sereQ
Faith frozen into words custom like wallsI
Of stone imprison us and we acquiesceI
More than the raging elements to fearQ
Is snow soft death that comes like a caressI
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Life lives for ever Death of her knows naughtR
Our souls through radiant mystery are ledS
Clothed in fresh raiment as the old is shedS
But Death the unchanging has no aim no thoughtR
Deaf blind indifferent feeds not yet is fedS
Moves not yet crushes is not rent yet rendsI
For as from icebergs killing airs are blownN
His cold sleep to our life warm ardour sendsI
Frost wreathing round us delicate as rimeA
Making most real what should be dream aloneN
To the free spirit the gnawing tooth of timeA
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Who shall escape since death and life inweaveT
Their threads so subtly Yet may truth be wooedG
In our own natures shaken off the broodG
Of thoughts not ours beliefs our lips believeT
But our hearts own not alien fortitudeG
These are of death and with his realm conspireB
Faint souls that drowse in ignorance unjustU
That with the world corrupt their true desireB
And dully hate and stagnantly despiseI
Already they begin to die to rustU
But those that love are always young and wiseI
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O Love my Love the dear light of whose eyesI
Shines on the world to show me all things newP
Falsehood the falser and the true more trueP
And tenfold precious all my soul must prizeI
Since from our life's core love so deeply grewP
O let us cleave fast to the heavenly powersI
That brought us this whose unseen spirit flowsI
Pure as the wind and sensitive as flowersI
They are with us Let the storm gathering nightV
Cover the bleak earth with these whirling snowsI
Our hands are joined our hearts are brimmed with lightV

Robert Laurence Binyon



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