This is meant to be an uplifting poem. How would you classify it?

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Promised

Beneath this frozen ground we wait,
protected from the iron fist
of winter as her cover slips
to freeze your garden, spread sharp frost
on wayward leaves now crunchy crisp.

Wild winds whip up and sun has lost
her welcome warmth, so pale her face,
no trace of robust, rosy glow.
Predicted soon are falls of snow
and ice will cling on country roads.

Our time clock ticks yet we must rest
in silent sleep, bear out the chill
until we push our waking green
through stubborn earth. And then the thrill
in early spring, we'll bring to you,
we'll dance for you in thickened clumps.
We are your promised daffodils.

WinterRose · Accepted Answer

It is also a poem of resurrection, and I enjoyed it.

? · Answer

Complex in structure and in rhyme, yet it has enough poetic devices--personification, metaphors, and consonance--to appeal to readers of poetry at any level. It has a bit of yin-yang going on...the death in winter and the rebirth in spring... both being parts of the same forces. I would classify it as an intellectual poem of Nature. And a very good one too.

Thomas · Answer

Wow, someone I know here.   I do not remember you writing much
metered poetry but you nailed it here.   As far as the concept of
the poem and rhymes it's not one of your best, by far, but it's good.
Better than anything else here that's for sure.   Thomas

Anonymous · Answer

I'd classify it as a poem in iambic tetrameter with irregular rhyme and irregular stanza length. In terms of genre it's a lyric poem.

? · Answer

I am back and forth about it. Imagery good, verbosity dull
 structure a but too prosey ( in layout) and too rhymie in meter.

This is meant to be an uplifting poem. How would you classify it?

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