Laggard Spring Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKIL IMNM CHJH| Winter hung about the ways | A |
| Very loth to go | B |
| Little Spring could not get past him | C |
| Try she never so | B |
| - | |
| This side that side everywhere | D |
| Winter held the track | E |
| Little Spring sat down and whimpered | F |
| Winter humped his back | E |
| - | |
| Summer called her Come dear come | G |
| Why do you delay | H |
| Come and help me Sister Summer | I |
| Winter blocks my way | H |
| - | |
| Little Spring tried everything | J |
| Sighs and moans and tears | K |
| Winter howled with mocking laughter | I |
| Covered her with jeers | L |
| - | |
| Winter rough old surly beggar | I |
| Practised every vice | M |
| Pelted her with hail and snow storms | N |
| Clogged her feet with ice | M |
| - | |
| But by chance at last they caught him | C |
| Unawares one day | H |
| Tied his hands and feet and dancing | J |
| Sped upon their way | H |
William Arthur Dunkerley (john Oxenham)
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