The Magic Wand Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDB EFEFF EGHGG EIEII JBKBD LMNMM OPQPP RNNNS| As an April garden | A |
| Breathes the scent of rain | B |
| Rain that calls her treasures | C |
| Back to life again | D |
| So my spirit quickens to the opening strain | B |
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| In its sheath of darkness | E |
| Fancy's folded wing | F |
| Thrills and stirs and quivers | E |
| To another spring | F |
| When the bow is drawn across the trembling string | F |
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| In their grave of silence | E |
| In their husk and core | G |
| Dreams that winter buried | H |
| Feel the sap once more | G |
| Running warm and vital as it ran before | G |
| - | |
| Into secret chambers | E |
| Where old passions sleep | I |
| Through the long closed shutters | E |
| Lights of morning creep | I |
| Through the opening doorway airs of morning sweep | I |
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| Hope resurgent and Youth | J |
| With their dancing train | B |
| Mingled grief and glory | K |
| Blended bliss and pain | B |
| Ecstasies and agonies come forth and live again | D |
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| Wizard hand that summoned | L |
| Each forgotten ghost | M |
| Plays like wind or water | N |
| With the spell bound host | M |
| Sailing seas supernal for no earthly coast | M |
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| Yet no magic music | O |
| That an ear can mark | P |
| Draws them winging upward | Q |
| Through the mist and dark | P |
| As the sky at sunrise draws the mounting lark | P |
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| Through the poet spirit | R |
| Touched with heavenly fire | N |
| Heavenly voices whisper | N |
| In the wood and wire | N |
| God is the musician and my soul the lyre | S |
Ada Cambridge
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