The 'how' And The 'why' Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCDCBDEE BBFFEEGGEEE HHIEE JH KK LELMIE| A | |
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| I am any man's suitor | B |
| If any will be my tutor | B |
| Some say this life is pleasant | C |
| Some think it speedeth fast | D |
| In time there is no present | C |
| In eternity no future | B |
| In eternity no past | D |
| We laugh we cry we are born we die | E |
| Who will riddle me the how and the why | E |
| - | |
| The bulrush nods unto its brother | B |
| The wheatears whisper to each other | B |
| What is it they say what do they there | F |
| Why two and two make four why round is not square | F |
| Why the rock stands still and the light clouds fly | E |
| Why the heavy oak groans and the white willows sigh | E |
| Why deep is not high and high is not deep | G |
| Whether we wake or whether we sleep | G |
| Whether we sleep or whether we die | E |
| How you are you why I am I | E |
| Who will riddle me the how and the why | E |
| - | |
| The world is somewhat it goes on somehow | H |
| But what is the meaning of then and now | H |
| I feel there is something but how and what | I |
| I know there is somewhat but what and why | E |
| I cannot tell if that somewhat be I | E |
| The little bird pipeth 'why why ' | - |
| In the summer woods when the sun falls low | J |
| And the great bird sits on the opposite bough | H |
| And stares in his face and shouts 'how how ' | - |
| And the black owl sends down the mellow twilight | K |
| And chants 'how how ' the whole of the night | K |
| - | |
| Why the life goes when the blood is spilt | L |
| What the life is where the soul may lie | E |
| Why a church is with a steeple built | L |
| And a house with a chimney pot | M |
| Who will riddle me the how and the what | I |
| Who will riddle me the what and the why | E |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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