April. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB ACAC DEDE ABAB AFAF GHGI GJGJ GKGK DLDL MNLN| Hark upon the east wind piping creeping | A |
| Comes a voice all clamorous with despair | B |
| It is April crying sore and weeping | A |
| O'er the chilly earth so brown and bare | B |
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| When I went away she murmurs sobbing | A |
| All my violet banks were starred with blue | C |
| Who O who has been here basely robbing | A |
| Bloom and odor from the fragrant crew | C |
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| Who has reft the robin's hidden treasure | D |
| All the speckled spheres he loved so well | E |
| And the buds which danced in merry measure | D |
| To the chiming of the hyacinth's bell | E |
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| Where are all my hedge rows flushed with Maying | A |
| And the leafy rain that tossed so fair | B |
| Like the spray from silver fountains playing | A |
| Where the elm tree's column rose in air | B |
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| All are vanished and my heart is breaking | A |
| And my tears they slowly drip and fall | F |
| Only death could listen without waking | A |
| To the grief and passion of my call | F |
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| Thus she plaineth Then ten million voices | G |
| Tiny murmurous like drops of rain | H |
| Raised in song as when the wind rejoices | G |
| Ring the answer We are here again | I |
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| We were hiding April Did you miss us | G |
| None of us were really gone away | J |
| Stoop thy pretty head and gently kiss us | G |
| Once before we all come out to play | J |
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| Here are all the clustering burls of roses | G |
| And the dandelion's mimic sun | K |
| Of thy much beloved and vanished posies | G |
| None are missing not a single one | K |
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| Little points of green push out to greet her | D |
| Little creepers grasp her garment's hem | L |
| Hidden sweetnesses grow ever sweeter | D |
| As she bends and brightly smiles at them | L |
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| Every tear is answered by a blossom | M |
| Every high with songs and laughter blent | N |
| Apple blooms upon the breezes toss them | L |
| April knows her own and is content | N |
Susan Coolidge (sarah Chauncey Woolsey)
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