Listening Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBDC EBEBB FBFBB BGBGG FHFHH IBIBB BJBJJ BKBKL MNMNN FBFBB| A | |
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| When earth's winter bareness | B |
| Feels the April rain | C |
| All her summer fairness | B |
| Comes to life again | D |
| So my spirit quickens to that magic strain | C |
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| Fancy warmed and brightened | E |
| Spreads her folded wings | B |
| Passion stirred enlightened | E |
| From its slumber springs | B |
| When that bow is laid upon those trembling strings | B |
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| Visions past all telling | F |
| Sweet and strange I see | B |
| Mystic voices swelling | F |
| Melting cry to me | B |
| From celestial realms of hope and memory | B |
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| Tender thoughts caress me | B |
| Like a summer's day | G |
| Sterner moods possess me | B |
| As the rough winds play | G |
| With an autumn leaf untimely cast away | G |
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| Fierce desires come creeping | F |
| From their secret lair | H |
| Wild regrets upleaping | F |
| At my heartstrings tear | H |
| Wildest aspirations more than I can bear | H |
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| Like a leaf I quiver | I |
| With responsive thrills | B |
| Ache and burn and shiver | I |
| As the Master wills | B |
| Whose mysterious message all my being fills | B |
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| Dreams of grace and glory | B |
| Always out of reach | J |
| Truths untold in story | B |
| That no book can teach | J |
| Past all human language find their native speech | J |
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| O what wailing sadness | B |
| That no tongue may tell | K |
| What enraptured gladness | B |
| In those wild notes swell | K |
| Bliss and anguish both divine ineffable | L |
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| Joys and woes unspoken | M |
| Whereof earth is rife | N |
| Dear hopes blest and broken | M |
| Futile pain and strife | N |
| Birth and death and love the tragedy of life | N |
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| And my soul attending | F |
| Through my listening ears | B |
| In those strains heartrending | F |
| Its own history hears | B |
| All too sweet for words too terrible for tears | B |
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