Earliest Spring Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF| Tossing his mane of snows in wildest eddies and tangles | A |
| Lion like March cometh in hoarse with tempestuous breath | B |
| Through all the moaning chimneys and 'thwart all the hollows and angles | A |
| Round the shuddering house threating of winter and death | B |
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| But in my heart I feel the life of the wood and the meadow | C |
| Thrilling the pulses that own kindred with fibres that lift | D |
| Bud and blade to the sunward within the inscrutable shadow | C |
| Deep in the oak's chill core under the gathering drift | D |
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| Nay to earth's life in mine some prescience or dream or desire | E |
| How shall I name it aright comes for a moment and goes | F |
| Rapture of life ineffable perfect as if in the brier | E |
| Leafless there by my door trembled a sense of the rose | F |
William Dean Howells
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