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 P2WEWWWQ2W| ON 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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