The Message Of The March Wind Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABAB ACAC DEDE FGFG HIHI BJBJ KLKL IMIM ANAN HOHO MMMM AMAM HMHM FMFM MBMB KPKQ RSRS HMHM

Fair now is the springtide now earth lies beholdingA
With the eyes of a lover the face of the sunB
Long lasteth the daylight and hope is enfoldingA
The green growing acres with increase begunB
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Now sweet sweet it is through the land to be strayingA
Mid the birds and the blossoms and the beasts of the fieldC
Love mingles with love and no evil is weighingA
On thy heart or mine where all sorrow is healedC
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From township to township o er down and by tillageD
Fair far have we wandered and long was the dayE
But now cometh eve at the end of the villageD
Where over the grey wall the church riseth greyE
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There is wind in the twilight in the white road before usF
The straw from the ox yard is blowing aboutG
The moon s rim is rising a star glitters o er usF
And the vane on the spire top is swinging in doubtG
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Down there dips the highway toward the bridge crossing overH
The brook that runs on to the Thames and the seaI
Draw closer my sweet we are lover and loverH
This eve art thou given to gladness and meI
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Shall we be glad always Come closer and hearkenB
Three fields further on as they told me down thereJ
When the young moon has set if the March sky should darkenB
We might see from the hill top the great city s glareJ
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Hark the wind in the elm boughs from London it blowethK
And telleth of gold and of hope and unrestL
Of power that helps not of wisdom that knowethK
But teacheth not aught of the worst and the bestL
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Of the rich men it telleth and strange is the storyI
How they have and they hanker and grip far and wideM
And they live and they die and the earth and its gloryI
Has been but a burden they scarce might abideM
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Hark the March wind again of a people is tellingA
Of the life that they live there so haggard and grimN
That if we and our love amidst them had been dwellingA
My fondness had faltered thy beauty grown dimN
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This land we have loved in our love and our leisureH
For them hangs in heaven high out of their reachO
The wide hills o er the sea plain for them have no pleasureH
The grey homes of their fathers no story to teachO
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The singers have sung and the builders have buildedM
The painters have fashioned their tales of delightM
For what and for whom hath the world s book been gildedM
When all is for these but the blackness of nightM
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How long and for what is their patience abidingA
How oft and how oft shall their story be toldM
While the hope that none seeketh in darkness is hidingA
And in grief and in sorrow the world groweth oldM
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Come back to the inn love and the lights and the fireH
And the fiddler s old tune and the shuffling of feetM
For there in a while shall be rest and desireH
And there shall the morrow s uprising be sweetM
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Yet love as we wend the wind bloweth behind usF
And beareth the last tale it telleth to nightM
How here in the spring tide the message shall find usF
For the hope that none seeketh is coming to lightM
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Like the seed of midwinter unheeded unperishedM
Like the autumn sown wheat neath the snow lying greenB
Like the love that o ertook us unawares and uncherishedM
Like the babe neath thy girdle that groweth unseenB
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So the hope of the people now buddeth and growethK
Rest fadeth before it and blindness and fearP
It biddeth us learn all the wisdom it knowethK
It hath found us and held us and biddeth us hearQ
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For it beareth the message Rise up on the morrowR
And go on your ways toward the doubt and the strifeS
Join hope to our hope and blend sorrow with sorrowR
And seek for men s love in the short days of lifeS
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But lo the old inn and the lights and the fireH
And the fiddler s old tune and the shuffling of feetM
Soon for us shall be quiet and rest and desireH
And to morrow s uprising to deeds shall be sweetM

William Morris



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