Frostbound Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FGFG HIHJ KLKL MNMN| When winter's pulse seems dead beneath the snow | A |
| And has no throb to give | B |
| Warm your cold heart at mine beloved and so | A |
| Shall your heart live | C |
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| For mine is fire a furnace strong and red | D |
| Look up into my eyes | E |
| There shall you see a flame to make the dead | D |
| Take life and rise | E |
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| My eyes are brown and yours are still and grey | F |
| Still as the frostbound lake | G |
| Whose depths are sleeping in the icy sway | F |
| And will not wake | G |
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| Soundless they are below the leaden sky | H |
| Bound with that silent chain | I |
| Yet chains may fall and those that fettered lie | H |
| May live again | J |
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| Yes turn away grey eyes you dare not face | K |
| In mine the flame of life | L |
| When frost meets fire 'tis but a little space | K |
| That ends the strife | L |
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| Then comes the hour when breaking from their bands | M |
| The swirling floods run free | N |
| And you beloved shall stretch your drowning hands | M |
| And cling to me | N |
Violet Jacob
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