Singers To Come Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCB BBBBB DBBDB EFFEF BGGBG HBBHB IAAIC| New delights to our desire | A |
| The singers of the past can yield | B |
| I lift mine eyes to hill and field | B |
| And see in them your yet dumb lyre | C |
| poets unborn and unrevealed | B |
| - | |
| Singers to come what thoughts will start | B |
| To song What words of yours be sent | B |
| Through man's soul and with earth be blent | B |
| These words of nature and the heart | B |
| Await you like an instrument | B |
| - | |
| Who knows what musical flocks of words | D |
| Upon these pine tree tops will light | B |
| And crown these towers in circling flight | B |
| And cross these seas like summer birds | D |
| And give a voice to the day and night | B |
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| Something of you already is ours | E |
| Some mystic part of you belongs | F |
| To us whose dream of your future throngs | F |
| Who look on hills and trees and flowers | E |
| Which will mean so much in your songs | F |
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| I wonder like the maid who found | B |
| And knelt to lift the lyre supreme | G |
| Of Orpheus from the Thracian stream | G |
| She dreams on its sealed past profound | B |
| On a deep future sealed I dream | G |
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| She bears it in her wanderings | H |
| Within her arms and has not pressed | B |
| Her unskilled fingers but her breast | B |
| Upon those silent sacred strings | H |
| I too clasp mystic strings at rest | B |
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| For I i' the world of lands and seas | I |
| The sky of wind and rain and fire | A |
| And in man's world of long desire | A |
| In all that is yet dumb in these | I |
| Have found a mysterious lyre | C |
Alice Meynell
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