May Day, 1894 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKM NDNO PQPQ ABAB| Clad is the year in all her best | A |
| The land is sweet and sheen | B |
| Now Spring with Summer at her breast | A |
| Goes down the meadows green | B |
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| Here are we met to welcome in | C |
| The young abounding year | D |
| To praise what she would have us win | C |
| Ere winter draweth near | D |
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| For surely all is not in vain | E |
| This gallant show she brings | F |
| But seal of hope and sign of gain | E |
| Beareth this Spring of springs | F |
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| No longer now the seasons wear | G |
| Dull without any tale | H |
| Of how the chain the toilers bear | G |
| Is growing thin and frail | H |
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| But hope of plenty and goodwill | I |
| Flies forth from land to land | J |
| Nor any now the voice can still | I |
| That crieth on the hand | J |
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| A little while shall Spring come back | K |
| And find the Ancient Home | L |
| Yet marred by foolish waste and lack | K |
| And most enthralled by some | M |
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| A little while and then at last | N |
| Shall the greetings of the year | D |
| Be blent with wonder of the past | N |
| And all the griefs that were | O |
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| A little while and they that meet | P |
| The living year to praise | Q |
| Shall be to them as music sweet | P |
| That grief of bye gone days | Q |
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| So be we merry to our best | A |
| Now the land is sweet and sheen | B |
| And Spring with Summer at her breast | A |
| Goes down the meadows green | B |
William Morris
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