The Window Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCD EAEAD FGFHD IJIJD K LLMMNNN LLMMNNN H HJOPPQQQ N OJJJOJ RRSTSL RJJJJUL D VJEJEJEJ EWXWWJWJ J YBYBKBKP WBWBKBKP J CKCKHG WZWA2HG B2KB2KHG J C2C2D2WWD2E2E2E2D2 J YYF2YF2G2H2G2I2I2 P PJPJBJ2WLWLBJ2EJEJBP E2 WPWP W K2 K I2P D UI2EI2WB2L2B2 M2JEJC2N2G2O2 P2WEWWWQ2WON THE HILL | A |
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The lights and shadows fly | B |
Yonder it brightens and darkens down on the plain | C |
A jewel a jewel dear to a lover's eye | B |
Oh is it the brook or a pool or her window pane | C |
When the winds are up in the morning | D |
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Clouds that are racing above | E |
And winds and lights and shadows that cannot be still | A |
All running on one way to the home of my love | E |
You are all running on and I stand on the slope of the hill | A |
And the winds are up in the morning | D |
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Follow follow the chase | F |
And my thoughts are as quick and as quick ever on on on | G |
O lights are you flying over her sweet little face | F |
And my heart is there before you are come and gone | H |
When the winds are up in the morning | D |
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Follow them down the slope | I |
And I follow them down to the window pane of my dear | J |
And it brightens and darkens and brightens like my hope | I |
And it darkens and brightens and darkens like my fear | J |
And the winds are up in the morning | D |
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AT THE WINDOW | K |
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Vine vine and eglantine | L |
Clasp her window trail and twine | L |
Rose rose and clematis | M |
Trail and twine and clasp and kiss | M |
Kiss kiss and make her a bower | N |
All of flowers and drop me a flower | N |
Drop me a flower | N |
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Vine vine and eglantine | L |
Cannot a flower a flower be mine | L |
Rose rose and clematis | M |
Drop me a flower a flower to kiss | M |
Kiss kiss and out of her bower | N |
All of flowers a flower a flower | N |
Dropt a flower | N |
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GONE | H |
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Gone | H |
Gone till the end of the year | J |
Gone and the light gone with her and left me in shadow here | O |
Gone flitted away | P |
Taken the stars from the night and the sun from the day | P |
Gone and a cloud in my heart and a storm in the air | Q |
Flown to the east or the west flitted I know not where | Q |
Down in the south is a flash and a groan she is there she is there | Q |
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WINTER | N |
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The frost is here | O |
And fuel is clear | J |
And woods are sear | J |
And fires burn clear | J |
And frost is here | O |
And has bitten the heel of the going year | J |
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Bite frost bite | R |
You roll up away from the light | R |
The blue wood louse and the plump dormouse | S |
And the bees are still'd and the flies are kill'd | T |
And you bite far into the heart of the house | S |
But not into mine | L |
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Bite frost bite | R |
The woods are all the searer | J |
The fuel is all the dearer | J |
The fires are all the clearer | J |
My spring is all the nearer | J |
You have bitten into the heart of the earth | U |
But not into mine | L |
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SPRING | D |
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Birds' love and birds' song | V |
Flying here and there | J |
Birds' song and birds' love | E |
And you with gold for hair | J |
Birds' song and birds' love | E |
Passing with the weather | J |
Men's song and men's love | E |
To love once and for ever | J |
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Men's love and birds' love | E |
And women's love and men's | W |
And you my wren with a crown of gold | X |
You my queen of the wrens | W |
You the queen of the wrens | W |
We'll be birds of a feather | J |
I'll be King of the Queen of the wrens | W |
And all in a nest together | J |
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THE LETTER | J |
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Where is another sweet as my sweet | Y |
Fine of the fine and shy of the shy | B |
Fine little hands fine little feet | Y |
Dewy blue eye | B |
Shall I write to her shall I go | K |
Ask her to marry me by and by | B |
Somebody said that she'd say no | K |
Somebody knows that she'll say ay | P |
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Ay or no if ask'd to her face | W |
Ay or no from shy of the shy | B |
Go little letter apace apace | W |
Fly | B |
Fly to the light in the valley below | K |
Tell my wish to her dewy blue eye | B |
Somebody said that she'd say no | K |
Somebody knows that she'll say ay | P |
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NO ANSWER | J |
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The mist and the rain the mist and the rain | C |
Is it ay or no is it ay or no | K |
And never a glimpse of her window pane | C |
And I may die but the grass will grow | K |
And the grass will grow when I am gone | H |
And the wet west wind and the world will go on | G |
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Ay is the song of the wedded spheres | W |
No is trouble and cloud and storm | Z |
Ay is life for a hundred years | W |
No will push me down to the worm | A2 |
And when I am there and dead and gone | H |
The wet west wind and the world will go on | G |
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The wind and the wet the wind and the wet | B2 |
Wet west wind how you blow you blow | K |
And never a line from my lady yet | B2 |
Is it ay or no is it ay or no | K |
Blow then blow and when I am gone | H |
The wet west wind and the world may go on | G |
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NO ANSWER | J |
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Winds are loud and you are dumb | C2 |
Take my love for love will come | C2 |
Love will come but once a life | D2 |
Winds are loud and winds will pass | W |
Spring is here with leaf and grass | W |
Take my love and be my wife | D2 |
After loves of maids and men | E2 |
Are but dainties drest again | E2 |
Love me now you'll love me then | E2 |
Love can love but once a life | D2 |
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THE ANSWER | J |
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Two little hands that meet | Y |
Claspt on her seal my sweet | Y |
Must I take you and break you | F2 |
Two little hands that meet | Y |
I must take you and break you | F2 |
And loving hands must part | G2 |
Take take break break | H2 |
Break you may break my heart | G2 |
Faint heart never won | I2 |
Break break and all's done | I2 |
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AY | P |
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Be merry all birds to day | P |
Be merry on earth as you never were merry before | J |
Be merry in heaven O larks and far away | P |
And merry for ever and ever and one day more | J |
Why | B |
For it's easy to find a rhyme | J2 |
Look look how he flits | W |
The fire crown'd king of the wrens from out of the pine | L |
Look how they tumble the blossom the mad little tits | W |
'Cuck oo Cuck oo ' was ever a May so fine | L |
Why | B |
For it's easy to find a rhyme | J2 |
O merry the linnet and dove | E |
And swallow and sparrow and throstle and have your desire | J |
O merry my heart you have gotten the wings of love | E |
And flit like the king of the wrens with a crown of fire | J |
Why | B |
For it's ay ay ay ay | P |
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WHEN | E2 |
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Sun comes moon comes | W |
Time slips away | P |
Sun sets moon sets | W |
Love fix a day | P |
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'A year hence a year hence ' | - |
'We shall both be gray ' | - |
'A month hence a month hence | W |
'Far far away ' | - |
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'A week hence a week hence ' | - |
'Ah the long delay ' | - |
'Wait a little wait a little | K2 |
You shall fix a day ' | - |
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'To morrow love to morrow | K |
And that's an age away ' | - |
Blaze upon her window sun | I2 |
And honour all the day | P |
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MARRIAGE MORNING | D |
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Light so low upon earth | U |
You send a flash to the sun | I2 |
Here is the golden close of love | E |
All my wooing is done | I2 |
Oh the woods and the meadows | W |
Woods where we hid from the wet | B2 |
Stiles where we stay'd to be kind | L2 |
Meadows in which we met | B2 |
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Light so low in the vale | M2 |
You flash and lighten afar | J |
For this is the golden morning of love | E |
And you are his morning star | J |
Flash I am coming I come | C2 |
By meadow and stile and wood | N2 |
Oh lighten into my eyes and my heart | G2 |
Into my heart and my blood | O2 |
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Heart are you great enough | P2 |
For a love that never tires | W |
O heart are you great enough for love | E |
I have heard of thorns and briers | W |
Over the thorns and briers | W |
Over the meadows and stiles | W |
Over the world to the end of it | Q2 |
Flash for a million miles | W |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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