A Winter Piece Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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The time has been that these wild solitudesA
Yet beautiful as wild were trod by meB
Oftener than now and when the ills of lifeC
Had chafed my spirit when the unsteady pulseA
Beat with strange flutterings I would wander forthD
And seek the woods The sunshine on my pathE
Was to me as a friend The swelling hillsA
The quiet dells retiring far betweenF
With gentle invitation to exploreG
Their windings were a calm societyB
That talked with me and soothed me Then the chantH
Of birds and chime of brooks and soft caressA
Of the fresh sylvan air made me forgetI
The thoughts that broke my peace and I beganJ
To gather simples by the fountain's brinkK
And lose myself in day dreams While I stoodL
In nature's loneliness I was with oneM
With whom I early grew familiar oneM
Who never had a frown for me whose voiceA
Never rebuked me for the hours I stoleN
From cares I loved not but of which the worldO
Deems highest to converse with her When shriekedP
The bleak November winds and smote the woodsA
And the brown fields were herbless and the shadesA
That met above the merry rivuletP
Were spoiled I sought I loved them still they seemedP
Like old companions in adversityP
Still there was beauty in my walks the brookQ
Bordered with sparkling frost work was as gayR
As with its fringe of summer flowers AfarS
The village with its spires the path of streamsA
And dim receding valleys hid beforeG
By interposing trees lay visibleT
Through the bare grove and my familiar hauntsA
Seemed new to me Nor was I slow to comeU
Among them when the clouds from their still skirtsA
Had shaken down on earth the feathery snowV
And all was white The pure keen air abroadP
Albeit it breathed no scent of herb nor heardP
Love call of bird nor merry hum of beeP
Was not the air of death Bright mosses creptP
Over the spotted trunks and the close budsA
That lay along the boughs instinct with lifeC
Patient and waiting the soft breath of SpringW
Feared not the piercing spirit of the NorthD
The snow bird twittered on the beechen boughX
And 'neath the hemlock whose thick branches bentP
Beneath its bright cold burden and kept dryY
A circle on the earth of withered leavesA
The partridge found a shelter Through the snowV
The rabbit sprang away The lighter trackZ
Of fox and the racoon's broad path were thereA2
Crossing each other From his hollow treeP
The squirrel was abroad gathering the nutsA
Just fallen that asked the winter cold and swayR
Of winter blast to shake them from their holdP
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But Winter has yet brighter scenes he boastsA
Splendours beyond what gorgeous Summer knowsA
Or Autumn with his many fruits and woodsA
All flushed with many hues Come when the rainsA
Have glazed the snow and clothed the trees with iceA
While the slant sun of February poursA
Into the bowers a flood of light ApproachB2
The incrusted surface shall upbear thy stepsA
And the broad arching portals of the groveC2
Welcome thy entering Look the massy trunksA
Are cased in the pure crystal each light sprayR
Nodding and tinkling in the breath of heavenM
Is studded with its trembling water dropsA
That stream with rainbow radiance as they moveD2
But round the parent stem the long low boughsA
Bend in a glittering ring and arbours hideP
The glassy floor Oh you might deem the spotP
The spacious cavern of some virgin mineE2
Deep in the womb of earth where the gems growV
And diamonds put forth radiant rods and budP
With amethyst and topaz and the placeA
Lit up most royally with the pure beamF2
That dwells in them Or haply the vast hallG2
Of fairy palace that outlasts the nightP
And fades not in the glory of the sunM
Where crystal columns send forth slender shaftsA
And crossing arches and fantastic aislesA
Wind from the sight in brightness and are lostP
Among the crowded pillars Raise thine eyeY
Thou seest no cavern roof no palace vaultP
There the blue sky and the white drifting cloudP
Look in Again the wildered fancy dreamsA
Of spouting fountains frozen as they roseA
And fixed with all their branching jets in airA2
And all their sluices sealed All all is lightP
Light without shade But all shall pass awayR
With the next sun From numberless vast trunksA
Loosened the crashing ice shall make a soundP
Like the far roar of rivers and the eveH2
Shall close o'er the brown woods as it was wontP
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And it is pleasant when the noisy streamsA
Are just set free and milder suns melt offI2
The plashy snow save only the firm driftP
In the deep glen or the close shade of pinesA
'Tis pleasant to behold the wreaths of smokeJ2
Roll up among the maples of the hillK2
Where the shrill sound of youthful voices wakesA
The shriller echo as the clear pure lymphL2
That from the wounded trees in twinkling dropsA
Falls mid the golden brightness of the mornM2
Is gathered in with brimming pails and oftP
Wielded by sturdy hands the stroke of axeA
Makes the woods ring Along the quiet airA2
Come and float calmly off the soft light cloudsA
Such as you see in summer and the windsA
Scarce stir the branches Lodged in sunny cleftP
Where the cold breezes come not blooms aloneN2
The little wind flower whose just opened eyeY
Is blue as the spring heaven it gazes atP
Startling the loiterer in the naked grovesA
With unexpected beauty for the timeO2
Of blossoms and green leaves is yet afarS
And ere it comes the encountering winds shall oftP
Muster their wrath again and rapid cloudsA
Shade heaven and bounding on the frozen earthP2
Shall fall their volleyed stores rounded like hailQ2
And white like snow and the loud North againR2
Shall buffet the vexed forest in his rageS2

William Cullen Bryant



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