To A Cold Beauty Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEFGFHHIJIJKKLM DDNN| Lady wouldst thou heiress be | A |
| To Winters cold and cruel part | B |
| When he sets the rivers free | A |
| Thou dost still lock up thy heart | B |
| Thou that shouldst outlast the snow | C |
| But in the whiteness of thy brow | D |
| Scorn and cold neglect are made | E |
| For winter gloom and winter wind | F |
| But thou wilt wrong the summer air | G |
| Breathing it to words unkind | F |
| Breath which only should belong | H |
| To love to sunlight and to song | H |
| When the little buds unclose | I |
| Red and white and pied and blue | J |
| And that virgin flow'r the rose | I |
| Opes her heart to hold the dew | J |
| Wilt thou lock thy bosom up | K |
| With no jewel in its cup | K |
| Let not cold December sit | L |
| Thus in Love's peculiar throne | M |
| Brooklets are not prison'd now | D |
| But crystal frosts are all agone | D |
| And that which hangs upon the spray | N |
| It is no snow but flow'r of May | N |
Thomas Hood
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