A Song Of Derivations Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBA CCAAC DDEED FFGGF HHIIH| I come from nothing but from where | A |
| Come the undying thoughts I bear | A |
| Down through the long links of death and birth | B |
| From the past poets of the earth | B |
| My immortality is there | A |
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| I am like the blossom of an hour | C |
| But long long vanished sun and shower | C |
| Awoke my breath i' the young world's air | A |
| I track the past back everywhere | A |
| Through seed and flower and seed and flower | C |
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| Or I am like a stream that flows | D |
| Full of the cold springs that arose | D |
| In morning lands in distant hills | E |
| And down the plain my channel fills | E |
| With melting of forgotten snows | D |
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| Voices I have not heard possessed | F |
| My own fresh songs my thoughts are blessed | F |
| With relics of the far unknown | G |
| And mixed with memories not my own | G |
| The sweet streams throng in my breast | F |
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| Before this life began to be | H |
| The happy songs that wake in me | H |
| Woke long ago and far apart | I |
| Heavily on this little heart | I |
| Presses this immortality | H |
Alice Meynell
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