London Snow Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABABCBDEDEFEFBFBGB GHIHJHJKJKHKHDHD| When men were all asleep the snow came flying In large white flakes falling on the city brown | A |
| Stealthily and perpetually settling and loosely lying | B |
| Hushing the latest traffic of the drowsy town | A |
| Deadening muffling stifling its murmurs failing | B |
| Lazily and incessantly floating down and down | A |
| Silently sifting and veiling road roof and railing | B |
| Hiding difference making unevenness even | C |
| Into angles and crevices softly drifting and sailing | B |
| All night it fell and when full inches seven | D |
| It lay in the depth of its uncompacted lightness | E |
| The clouds blew off from a high and frosty heaven | D |
| And all woke earlier for the unaccustomed brightness | E |
| Of the winter dawning the strange unheavenly glare | F |
| The eye marvelled marvelled at the dazzling whiteness | E |
| The ear hearkened to the stillness of the solemn air | F |
| No sound of wheel rumbling nor of foot falling | B |
| And the busy morning cries came thin and spare | F |
| Then boys I heard as they went to school calling | B |
| They gathered up the crystal manna to freeze | G |
| Their tongues with tasting their hands with snowballing | B |
| Or rioted in a drift plunging up to the knees | G |
| Or peering up from under the white mossed wonder | H |
| 'O look at the trees ' they cried 'O look at the trees ' | I |
| With lessened load a few carts creak and blunder | H |
| Following along the white deserted way | J |
| A country company long dispersed asunder | H |
| When now already the sun in pale display | J |
| Standing by Paul's high dome spread forth below | K |
| His sparkling beams and awoke the stir of the day | J |
| For now doors open and war is waged with the snow | K |
| And trains of sombre men past tale of number | H |
| Tread long brown paths as toward their toil they go | K |
| But even for them awhile no cares encumber | H |
| Their minds diverted the daily word is unspoken | D |
| The daily thoughts of labour and sorrow slumber | H |
| At the sight of the beauty that greets them for the charm they have broken | D |
Robert Seymour Bridges
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