Spring Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD DCDC CCCC CECE BFBF GHGH CICJ CKCK| Stern Winter now by Spring repress'd | A |
| Forbears the long continued strife | B |
| And Nature on her naked breast | A |
| Delights to catch the gales of life | B |
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| Now o'er the rural kingdom roves | C |
| Soft pleasures with her laughing train | D |
| Love warbles in the vocal groves | C |
| And vegetation plants the plain | D |
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| Unhappy whom to beds of pain | D |
| Arthritic tyranny consigns | C |
| Whom smiling Nature courts in vain | D |
| Though rapture sings and beauty shines | C |
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| Yet though my limbs disease invades | C |
| Her wings imagination tries | C |
| And bears me to the peaceful shades | C |
| Where 's humble turrets rise | C |
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| Here let me through the vales pursue | C |
| A guide a father and a friend | E |
| Once more great Nature's works renew | C |
| Once more on Wisdom's voice attend | E |
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| From false caresses causeless strife | B |
| Wild hope vain fear alike removed | F |
| Here let me learn the use of life | B |
| When best enjoy'd when most improved | F |
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| Teach me thou venerable bower | G |
| Cool meditation's quiet seat | H |
| The generous scorn of venal power | G |
| The silent grandeur of retreat | H |
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| When pride by guilt to greatness climbs | C |
| Or raging factions rush to war | I |
| Here let me learn to shun the crimes | C |
| I can't prevent and will not share | J |
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| But lest I fall by subtler foes | C |
| Bright wisdom teach me Curio's art | K |
| The swelling passions to compose | C |
| And quell the rebels of the heart | K |
Samuel Johnson
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About Spring
Spring is a poem by Samuel Johnson. This page includes the poem text, poet information, related topics, comments, and similar poems.