Winter Nights Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEG HIHIJKJKLELE| Now winter nights enlarge | A |
| The number of their hours | B |
| And clouds their storms discharge | A |
| Upon the airy towers | B |
| Let now the chimneys blaze | C |
| And cups o'erflow with wine | D |
| Let well tuned words amaze | C |
| With harmony divine | D |
| Now yellow waxen lights | E |
| Shall wait on honey love | F |
| While youthful revels masques and courtly sights | E |
| Sleep's leaden spells remove | G |
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| This time doth well dispense | H |
| With lovers' long discourse | I |
| Much speech hath some defence | H |
| Though beauty no remorse | I |
| All do not all things well | J |
| Some measures comely tread | K |
| Some knotted riddles tell | J |
| Some poems smoothly read | K |
| The summer hath his joys | L |
| And winter his delights | E |
| Though love and all his pleasures are but toys | L |
| They shorten tedious nights | E |
Thomas Campion
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