Spring Dirge Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCADEED FGHI JKKJ LMML KJJK NOON MPPM JKKJ| A child came singing through the dusty town | A |
| A song so sweet that all men stayed to hear | B |
| Forgetting for a space their ancient fear | C |
| Of evil days and death and fortune s frown | A |
| She sang of Winter dead and Spring new born | D |
| In the green fields beyond the far hills bound | E |
| And how this fair Spring coming blossom crowned | E |
| Would cross the city s threshold on the morn | D |
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| And each caged bird in every house anigh | F |
| Even as she sang caught up the glad refrain | G |
| Of Love and Hope and fair days come again | H |
| Till all who heard forgot they had to die | I |
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| And all the ghosts of buried woes were laid | J |
| That heard the song of this sweet sorceress | K |
| The Past grew to a dream of old distress | K |
| And merry were the hearts of man and maid | J |
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| So at the first faint blush of tender dawn | L |
| Spring stole with noiseless steps through the gray gloom | M |
| And men knew only by a strange perfume | M |
| That she had softly entered and withdrawn | L |
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| But ah the lustre of her violet eyes | K |
| Was dimmed with tears for her sweet singing maid | J |
| Whose voice would sound no more in shine or shade | J |
| To charm men s souls at set of sun or rise | K |
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| For there with dews of dawn upon her hair | N |
| Like a fair flower plucked and flung away | O |
| Dead in the street the little maiden lay | O |
| Who gave new life to hearts nigh dead of care | N |
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| Alas must this be still the bitter doom | M |
| Awaiting those the finer souled of earth | P |
| Who make for men a morning song of mirth | P |
| While yet the birds are dumb amid the gloom | M |
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| They walk on thorny ways with feet unshod | J |
| Sing one last song and die as that song dies | K |
| There is no human hand to close their eyes | K |
| And very heavy is the hand of God | J |
Victor James Daley
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