Our Singing Strength Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHII JJJKKKLLMMEENNOODDMM PPQQQRRSST TRRUU

It snowed in spring on earth so dry and warmA
The flakes could find no landing place to formA
Hordes spent themselves to make it wet and coldB
And still they failed of any lasting holdB
They made no white impression on the blackC
They disappeared as if earth sent them backC
Not till from separate flakes they changed at nightD
To almost strips and tapes of ragged whiteD
Did grass and garden ground confess it snowedE
And all go back to winter but the roadE
Next day the scene was piled and puffed and deadF
The grass lay flattened under one great treadF
Borne down until the end almost took rootG
The rangey bough anticipated fruitG
With snowball cupped in every opening budH
The road alone maintained itself in mudH
Whatever its secret was of greater heatI
From inward fires or brush of passing feetI
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In spring more mortal singers than belongJ
To any one place cover us with songJ
Thrush bluebird blackbird sparrow and robin throngJ
Some to go further north to Hudson's BayK
Some that have come too far north back awayK
Really a very few to build and stayK
Now was seen how these liked belated snowL
the field had nowhere left for them to goL
They'd soon exhausted all there was in flyingM
The trees they'd had enough of with once tryingM
And setting off their heavy powder loadE
They could find nothing open but the roadE
Sot there they let their lives be narrowed inN
By thousands the bad weather made akinN
The road became a channel running flocksO
Of glossy birds like ripples over rocksO
I drove them under foot in bits of flightD
That kept the ground almost disputing rightD
Of way with me from apathy of wingM
A talking twitter all they had to singM
A few I must have driven to despairP
Made quick asides but having done in airP
A whir among white branches great and smallQ
As in some too much carven marble hallQ
Where one false wing beat would have brought down allQ
Came tamely back in front of me the DroverR
To suffer the same driven nightmare overR
One such storm in a lifetime couldn't teach themS
That back behind pursuit it couldn't reach themS
None flew behind me to be left aloneT
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Well something for a snowstorm to have shownT
The country's singing strength thus brought togetherR
the thought repressed and moody with the weatherR
Was none the less there ready to be freedU
And sing the wildflowers up from root and seedU

Robert Lee Frost



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