A Ballad Of Appeal Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCCDDEDEFCGCCDDEDE BCFCCDDEDEDDEDE| TO CHRISTINA G ROSSETTI | A |
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| Song wakes with every wakening year | B |
| From hearts of birds that only feel | C |
| Brief spring's deciduous flower time near | B |
| And song more strong to help or heal | C |
| Shall silence worse than winter seal | C |
| From love lit thought's remurmuring cave | D |
| The notes that rippled wave on wave | D |
| Were clear as love as faith were strong | E |
| And all souls blessed the soul that gave | D |
| Sweet water from the well of song | E |
| All hearts bore fruit of joy to hear | F |
| All eyes felt mist upon them steal | C |
| For joy's sake trembling toward a tear | G |
| When loud as marriage bells that peal | C |
| Or flutelike soft or keen like steel | C |
| Sprang the sheer music sharp or grave | D |
| We heard the drift of winds that drave | D |
| And saw swept round by ghosts in throng | E |
| Dark rocks that yielded where they clave | D |
| Sweet water from the well of song | E |
| Blithe verse made all the dim sense clear | B |
| That smiles of babbling babes conceal | C |
| Prayer's perfect heart spake here and here | F |
| Rose notes of blameless woe and weal | C |
| More soft than this poor song's appeal | C |
| Where orchards bask where cornfields wave | D |
| They dropped like rains that cleanse and lave | D |
| And scattered all the year along | E |
| Like dewfall on an April grave | D |
| Sweet water from the well of song | E |
| Ballad go bear our prayer and crave | D |
| Pardon because thy lowlier stave | D |
| Can do this plea no right but wrong | E |
| Ask nought beside thy pardon save | D |
| Sweet water from the well of song | E |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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