How One Winter Came In The Lake Region Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAB CDCCD EFEEF GHIIJ KLKKL MNMMN| For weeks and weeks the autumn world stood still | A |
| Clothed in the shadow of a smoky haze | B |
| The fields were dead the wind had lost its will | A |
| And all the lands were hushed by wood and hill | A |
| In those grey withered days | B |
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| Behind a mist the blear sun rose and set | C |
| At night the moon would nestle in a cloud | D |
| The fisherman a ghost did cast his net | C |
| The lake its shores forgot to chafe and fret | C |
| And hushed its caverns loud | D |
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| Far in the smoky woods the birds were mute | E |
| Save that from blackened tree a jay would scream | F |
| Or far in swamps the lizard's lonesome lute | E |
| Would pipe in thirst or by some gnarl d root | E |
| The tree toad trilled his dream | F |
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| From day to day still hushed the season's mood | G |
| The streams stayed in their runnels shrunk and dry | H |
| Suns rose aghast by wave and shore and wood | I |
| And all the world with ominous silence stood | I |
| In weird expectancy | J |
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| When one strange night the sun like blood went down | K |
| Flooding the heavens in a ruddy hue | L |
| Red grew the lake the sere fields parched and brown | K |
| Red grew the marshes where the creeks stole down | K |
| But never a wind breath blew | L |
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| That night I felt the winter in my veins | M |
| A joyous tremor of the icy glow | N |
| And woke to hear the north's wild vibrant strains | M |
| While far and wide by withered woods and plains | M |
| Fast fell the driving snow | N |
William Wilfred Campbell
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