The Winter's Walk Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ| Behold my fair where'er we rove | A |
| What dreary prospects round us rise | B |
| The naked hill the leafless grove | A |
| The hoary ground the frowning skies | B |
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| Nor only through the wasted plain | C |
| Stern Winter is thy force confess'd | D |
| Still wider spreads thy horrid reign | C |
| I feel thy power usurp my breast | D |
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| Enlivening hope and fond desire | E |
| Resign the heart to spleen and care | F |
| Scarce frighted love maintains her fire | E |
| And rapture saddens to despair | F |
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| In groundless hope and causeless fear | G |
| Unhappy man behold thy doom | H |
| Still changing with the changeful year | G |
| The slave of sunshine and of gloom | H |
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| Tired with vain joys the false alarms | I |
| With mental and corporeal strife | J |
| Snatch me my Stella to thy arms | I |
| And screen me from the ills of life | J |
Samuel Johnson
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