The Reward Of Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHIHHJKJ FLMLNOFO PFNFLQRQ JNNNFLAL| Why do we make our music | A |
| Oh blind dark strings reply | B |
| Because we dwell in a strange land | C |
| And remember a lost sky | B |
| We ask no leaf of the laurel | D |
| We know what fame is worth | E |
| But our songs break out of our winter | F |
| As the flowers break out on the earth | E |
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| And we dream of the unknown comrade | G |
| In the days when we lie dead | H |
| Who shall open our book in the sunlight | I |
| And read as ourselves have read | H |
| On a lonely hill by a firwood | H |
| With whispering seas below | J |
| And murmur a song we made him | K |
| Ages and ages ago | J |
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| If making his may time sweeter | F |
| With dews of our own dead may | L |
| One pulse of our own dead heart strings | M |
| Awake in his heart that day | L |
| We would pray for no richer guerdon | N |
| No praise from the careless throng | O |
| For song is the cry of a lover | F |
| In quest of an answering song | O |
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| As a child might run to his elders | P |
| With news of an opening flower | F |
| We should walk with our young companion | N |
| And talk to his heart for an hour | F |
| As once by my own green firwood | L |
| And once by a Western sea | Q |
| Thank God my own good comrades | R |
| Have walked and talked with me | Q |
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| Too mighty to make men sorrow | J |
| Too weak to heal their pain | N |
| Though they that remember the hawthorn | N |
| May find their heaven again | N |
| We are moved by a deeper hunger | F |
| We are bound by a stronger cord | L |
| For love is the heart of our music | A |
| And love is its one reward | L |
Alfred Noyes
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