To Winter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQR LSTUPVLWXYZA2B2C2LWD 2E2F2G2H2D2LLVLI2J2L K2D2L2M2D2N2LD2O2P2S D2D2L BLB2D2Q2N2LYD2LMLR2D 2S2| No longer Beauty's many colour'd robe | A |
| Adorns the autumnal scene no longer play | B |
| The Zephyrs with her tresses she has fled | C |
| To happier regions and has left the year | D |
| Naked and void of charms the leafless woods | E |
| Tremble no more with rapture at the voice | F |
| Of harmony ah how is Nature changed | G |
| Silent and sad she anxiously awaits | H |
| Thy coming mighty King and as the sun | I |
| Less bright less ardent more and more declines | J |
| Towards the horizon with alarm she marks | K |
| Thy shadow lengthening in the nightly shade | L |
| And towering o'er her prostrate as she lies | M |
| More threatening more gigantic till at length | N |
| Boreas thy harbinger forth rushing fierce | O |
| Tears from chill'd Autumn's head the withering Crown | P |
| And blustering loud in her affrighted ear | Q |
| O Winter tells thy terrible approach | R |
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| Behold in awful majesty thou comest | L |
| On huge black clouds that through the encumber'd sky | S |
| Before the northern blast sail slowly on | T |
| Thou ridest sublime aloft in ether towers | U |
| Thy giant form thy formidable frown | P |
| Blackens the night thy threatening voice sent forth | V |
| Upon the impetuous winds affrights the world | L |
| Yet dare I welcome thee terrific Power | W |
| Dread Winter hail thy terrors fill my soul | X |
| With a delightful awe I love to trace | Y |
| Thy varying scenes the wonders of thy reign | Z |
| Thy Ministers await thy sovereign will | A2 |
| And in the secret regions of the air | B2 |
| In cloudy magazines prepare thy stores | C2 |
| Of snow and rain and hail At thy command | L |
| Frost that invisible mysterious Power | W |
| Breathes upon Nature and thou see'st her soon | D2 |
| An unresisting captive bound in ice | E2 |
| Vainly she mourns till at thy bidding Thaw | F2 |
| With his damp misty standard from the south | G2 |
| Comes creeping silently and sets her free | H2 |
| She weeps for joy Ah now thou dost unchain | D2 |
| The Demon of the tempest to exert | L |
| On tortured Nature thy tyrannic might | L |
| Fierce on the whirlwind's wing he rushes forth | V |
| With dreadful bellowings hurling all around | L |
| Destructive deluges of rain snow hail | I2 |
| In wildest discord and chaotic war | J2 |
| Mingling earth sea and sky All potent Lord | L |
| Dread Winter though Sublimity appears | K2 |
| Thy chief attendant and partakes thy throne | D2 |
| Yet Beauty often visits thee and dares | L2 |
| In many a scene with the more powerful charms | M2 |
| Of her majestic sister to combine | D2 |
| Her pleasing graces I delight to view | N2 |
| Thy snowy robe of purest glowing white | L |
| The clear blue skies the cheerful evergreen | D2 |
| Amid the wintry desert from whose boughs | O2 |
| The little redbreast chirps the trees and herbs | P2 |
| With snow and hoarfrost fringed to fancy's eye | S |
| Presenting pictured shapes and when the sun | D2 |
| Sheds o'er them his effulgence sparkling keen | D2 |
| With million living particles of light | L |
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| But with far nobler transport I survey | B |
| Thy nightly scene O Winter when by frost | L |
| Refined and clear'd the pure transpicuous air | B2 |
| Through her thin azure veil to wondering man | D2 |
| Displays the unclouded heavens myriads of stars | Q2 |
| Shining in all their glory at the view | N2 |
| Rapt Contemplation in her car of light | L |
| Expatiates in the interminable space | Y |
| Ranging from world to world from sun to sun | D2 |
| O'erwhelm'd with wonder and astonishment | L |
| And sacred awe till lifting up her eyes | M |
| She sees Religion from the opening gate | L |
| Of heaven itself on her seraphic wings | R2 |
| Smiling descend she feels her power divine | D2 |
| And raptured hymns the great Creator's praise | S2 |
Thomas Oldham
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