Seventeen Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLAMNO PQRSTUSVNRWQXY SZA2B2C2D2E2F2G2E2 H2I2D2B2J2K2L2M2N2 N2O2N2SG2P2P2P2Q2N2R 2Q2DE2| All the loud winds were in the garden wood | A |
| All shadows joyfuller than lissom hounds | B |
| Doubled in chasing all exultant clouds | C |
| That ever flung fierce mist and eddying fire | D |
| Across heavens deeper than blue polar seas | E |
| Fled over the sceptre spikes of the chestnuts | F |
| Over the speckle of the wych elms' green | G |
| She shouted then stood still hushed and abashed | H |
| To hear her voice so shrill in that gay roar | I |
| And suddenly her eyelashes were dimmed | J |
| Caught in tense tears of spiritual joy | K |
| For there were daffodils which sprightly shook | L |
| Ten thousand ruffling heads throughout the wood | A |
| And every flower of those delighting flowers | M |
| Laughed nodding to her till she clapped her hands | N |
| Crying 'O daffies could you only speak ' | O |
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| But there was more A jay with skyblue shaft | P |
| Set in blunt wing skimmed screaming on ahead | Q |
| She followed him A murrey squirrel eyed | R |
| Her warily cocked upon tail plumed haunch | S |
| Then skipping the whirligig of last year leaves | T |
| Whisked himself out of sight and reappeared | U |
| Leering about the hole of a young beech | S |
| And every time she thought to corner him | V |
| He scrambled round on little scratchy hands | N |
| To peek at her about the other side | R |
| She lost him bolting branch to branch at last | W |
| The impudent brat But still high overhead | Q |
| Flight on exuberant flight of opal scud | X |
| Or of dissolving mist florid as flame | Y |
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| Scattered in ecstasy over the blue And she | S |
| Followed first walking giving her bright locks | Z |
| To the cold fervour of the springtime gale | A2 |
| Whose rush bore the cloud shadow past the cloud | B2 |
| Over the irised wastes of emerald turf | C2 |
| And still the huge wind volleyed Save the gulls | D2 |
| Goldenly in the sunny blast careering | E2 |
| Or on blue shadowed underwing at plunge | F2 |
| None shared with her who now could not but run | G2 |
| The splendour and tumult of th' onrushing spring | E2 |
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| And now she ran no more the gale gave plumes | H2 |
| One with the shadows whirled along the grass | I2 |
| One with the onward smother of veering gulls | D2 |
| One with the pursuit of cloud after cloud | B2 |
| Swept she Pure speed coursed in immortal limbs | J2 |
| Nostrils drank as from wells of unknown air | K2 |
| Ears received the smooth silence of racing floods | L2 |
| Light as of glassy suns froze in her eyes | M2 |
| Space was given her and she ruled all space | N2 |
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| Spring author of twifold loveliness | N2 |
| Who flittest in the mirth of the wild folk | O2 |
| Profferest greeting in the faces of flowers | N2 |
| Blowest in the firmamental glory | S |
| Renewest in the heart of the sad human | G2 |
| All faiths guard thou the innocent spirit | P2 |
| Into whose unknowing hands this noontide | P2 |
| Thou pourest treasure yet scarce recognised | P2 |
| That unashamed before man's glib wisdom | Q2 |
| Unabashed beneath the wrath of chance | N2 |
| She accept in simplicity of homage | R2 |
| The hidden holiness the created emblem | Q2 |
| To be in her until death shall take her | D |
| The source and secret of eternal spring | E2 |
Robert Nichols
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