To A Poet Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABB CDCDD BEBEE EBEBB FGFGG HIHII JKJKK ELELL CMCMM NKNKK| Thou who singest through the earth | A |
| All the earth's wild creatures fly thee | B |
| Everywhere thou marrest mirth | A |
| Dumbly they defy thee | B |
| There is something they deny thee | B |
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| Pines thy fallen nature ever | C |
| For the unfallen Nature sweet | D |
| But she shuns thy long endeavour | C |
| Though her flowers and wheat | D |
| Throng and press thy pausing feet | D |
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| Though thou tame a bird to love thee | B |
| Press thy face to grass and flowers | E |
| All these things reserve above thee | B |
| Secrets in the bowers | E |
| Secrets in the sun and showers | E |
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| Sing thy sorrow sing thy gladness | E |
| In thy songs must wind and tree | B |
| Bear the fictions of thy sadness | E |
| Thy humanity | B |
| For their truth is not for thee | B |
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| Wait and many a secret nest | F |
| Many a hoarded winter store | G |
| Will be hidden on thy breast | F |
| Things thou longest for | G |
| Will not fear or shun thee more | G |
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| Thou shalt intimately lie | H |
| In the roots of flowers that thrust | I |
| Upwards from thee to the sky | H |
| With no more distrust | I |
| When they blossom from thy dust | I |
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| Silent labours of the rain | J |
| Shall be near thee reconciled | K |
| Little lives of leaves and grain | J |
| All things shy and wild | K |
| Tell thee secrets quiet child | K |
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| Earth set free from thy fair fancies | E |
| And the art thou shalt resign | L |
| Will bring forth her rue and pansies | E |
| Unto more divine | L |
| Thoughts than any thoughts of thine | L |
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| Nought will fear thee humbled creature | C |
| There will lie thy mortal burden | M |
| Pressed unto the heart of Nature | C |
| Songless in a garden | M |
| With a long embrace of pardon | M |
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| Then the truth all creatures tell | N |
| And His will whom thou entreatest | K |
| Shall absorb thee there shall dwell | N |
| Silence the completest | K |
| Of thy poems last and sweetest | K |
Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell
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