Our Singing Strength Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHII JJJKKKLLMMEENNOODDMM PPQQQRRSST TRRUUIt snowed in spring on earth so dry and warm | A |
The flakes could find no landing place to form | A |
Hordes spent themselves to make it wet and cold | B |
And still they failed of any lasting hold | B |
They made no white impression on the black | C |
They disappeared as if earth sent them back | C |
Not till from separate flakes they changed at night | D |
To almost strips and tapes of ragged white | D |
Did grass and garden ground confess it snowed | E |
And all go back to winter but the road | E |
Next day the scene was piled and puffed and dead | F |
The grass lay flattened under one great tread | F |
Borne down until the end almost took root | G |
The rangey bough anticipated fruit | G |
With snowball cupped in every opening bud | H |
The road alone maintained itself in mud | H |
Whatever its secret was of greater heat | I |
From inward fires or brush of passing feet | I |
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In spring more mortal singers than belong | J |
To any one place cover us with song | J |
Thrush bluebird blackbird sparrow and robin throng | J |
Some to go further north to Hudson's Bay | K |
Some that have come too far north back away | K |
Really a very few to build and stay | K |
Now was seen how these liked belated snow | L |
the field had nowhere left for them to go | L |
They'd soon exhausted all there was in flying | M |
The trees they'd had enough of with once trying | M |
And setting off their heavy powder load | E |
They could find nothing open but the road | E |
Sot there they let their lives be narrowed in | N |
By thousands the bad weather made akin | N |
The road became a channel running flocks | O |
Of glossy birds like ripples over rocks | O |
I drove them under foot in bits of flight | D |
That kept the ground almost disputing right | D |
Of way with me from apathy of wing | M |
A talking twitter all they had to sing | M |
A few I must have driven to despair | P |
Made quick asides but having done in air | P |
A whir among white branches great and small | Q |
As in some too much carven marble hall | Q |
Where one false wing beat would have brought down all | Q |
Came tamely back in front of me the Drover | R |
To suffer the same driven nightmare over | R |
One such storm in a lifetime couldn't teach them | S |
That back behind pursuit it couldn't reach them | S |
None flew behind me to be left alone | T |
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Well something for a snowstorm to have shown | T |
The country's singing strength thus brought together | R |
the thought repressed and moody with the weather | R |
Was none the less there ready to be freed | U |
And sing the wildflowers up from root and seed | U |
Robert Lee Frost
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