A Question Answered Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD BBBB EBEB FGFH BIB JBCB BKBL MNMN OPOP QRQR BLBS BTB| I saw the lark at break of day | A |
| Rise from its dewy bed | B |
| And winged with melody away | A |
| Circle to Heaven o'erhead | B |
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| I watched it higher and higher soar | C |
| Still ceasing not to trill | D |
| When though I could descry no more | C |
| Its flight I heard it still | D |
| - | |
| But shortly quavered back its note | B |
| And hovering into sight | B |
| I saw it homeward sinking float | B |
| Over its nest of night | B |
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| Tell me '' I cried glad songster why | E |
| You privileged to wend | B |
| Up to the blue and boundless sky | E |
| Where only wings ascend | B |
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| Full into Heaven to look and gaze | F |
| Whither our thoughts aspire | G |
| And unrebuked terrestrial lays | F |
| Blend with celestial choir | H |
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| Why you thus welcomed to the height | B |
| Of minstrelsy and mirth | I |
| Pavilioned high from mortal sight | B |
| Come back again to Earth '' | - |
| - | |
| Then shook the lark again its wings | J |
| And fluttering o'er its bed | B |
| Deep bosomed in the grassy floor | C |
| In rippling answer said | B |
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| 'Tis joy to mount alone aloft | B |
| Into the ether clear | K |
| And thence look down on garth and croft | B |
| Of red roofed hamlets here | L |
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| To sing my song through endless space | M |
| Towering above above | N |
| While mortals watch with upturned face | M |
| Of longing and of love | N |
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| Then for a while unseen to pass | O |
| Through unsubstantial dome | P |
| But treble back to tangled grass | O |
| Not Heaven withal my home | P |
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| And tell me when I skyward sing | Q |
| Am I unlike to you | R |
| That on Imagination's wing | Q |
| Strain sometimes out of view | R |
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| Into the radiant Realms untrod | B |
| Song can alone descry | L |
| And whilom join by grace of God | B |
| Angelic company | S |
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| Yet sink down from the firmament | B |
| Back to life's dearth and dole | T |
| Knowing full well that song was sent | B |
| To comfort and console '' | - |
Alfred Austin
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