The Spring, My Dear Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDDC EFFEGHHG| The spring my dear | A |
| Is no longer spring | B |
| Does the blackbird sing | B |
| What he sang last year | A |
| Are the skies the old | C |
| Immemorial blue | D |
| Or am I or are you | D |
| Grown cold | C |
| - | |
| Though life be change | E |
| It is hard to bear | F |
| When the old sweet air | F |
| Sounds forced and strange | E |
| To be out of tune | G |
| Plain You and I | H |
| It were better to die | H |
| And soon | G |
William Ernest Henley
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